More profound and more disturbing, however, is the moral isolation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.

Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay " The Simple Art of Murder ", where he writes, " But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

In another film noir, Lady in the Lake, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery as Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, the entire film is shot from a subjective viewpoint, and Montgomery's face is seen only when he looks in a mirror.

Spenser was born in Laramie, Wyoming and is a Boston private eye in the mold of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, a smart-mouthed tough guy with a heart of gold.

The film is loosely based on Raymond Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep.

The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre – Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade.

She inspired the character Dolores González in Raymond Chandler's novel " The Little Sister " ( 1949 ).

* Raymond Chandler's 1938 detective story " Red Wind " opens with a description of the Santa Anas and their effect on the populace.

While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal " hard man ": brutally violent, and fuelled by a genuine rage against violent crime that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes.

* The eponymous character in Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel The Little Sister is from Manhattan.

In 1969, Garner joined a long list of actors to play Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in Marlowe, a detective drama featuring an early karate scene with Bruce Lee.

The book Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe / A Centennial Celebration ( Knopf, 1988 )-- a tribute collection of Marlowe stories, all but one written by authors other than Chandler -- includes a story called " The Man Who Knew Dick Bong ," by Robert Crais.

( The private investigator, though not named in the story, is clearly Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and his ex-wife is the recurring character Linda Loring, whom Marlowe married in Chandler's unfinished final novel Poodle Springs — after initially rejecting the idea because he knew it would not last.

* In the pilot episode of Bored to Death the main character Jonathan Ames played by Jason Schwartzman reads Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely and uses the name Philip Marlowe as a pseudonym.

Marlowe has appeared in short stories and novels by writers other than Chandler, such as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration ( 1988 ).

* Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: a Centennial Celebration ( 1988, ISBN 1-59687-847-9 ) A collection of short stories edited by Byron Preiss.

* Dealer's Choice ( 1988, < i > Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe </ i >, New York, Knopf ) by Sara Paretsky.

In Raymond Chandler's second draft script — which Hitchcock ceremoniously dropped into the wastebasket while daintily holding his nose — the final shot is Guy Haines, institutionalized, bound in a straitjacket.

Gibson's writing style is said to be similar to Raymond Chandler's detective stories and Alfred Hitchcock ’ s thrillers that used McGuffins ( the identity of the maker of the footage, in this case ) to drive the story.

Some of its expensive nightclubs and restaurants were said to be owned by gangsters like Mickey Cohen, earning the Strip a place in Raymond Chandler's 1949 Philip Marlowe novel, The Little Sister.

In common with Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, who have played Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe, Glover played the role in the episode " Red Wind " of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels.

His best known films from the pre-McCarthy period of his career were film noirs Crossfire, for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination, and Murder, My Sweet, the latter an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely.

The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction – Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Spade.

The protagonist of the novel is Raymond Davis Garraty, a 16-year-old boy from the town of Pownal in Androscoggin County, Maine.

* In the 1988 film Rain Man, autistic protagonist Raymond Babbitt ( Dustin Hoffman in an Academy Award-winning performance ) repeatedly mumbles this routine when nervous or frightened.

Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

In 2004, DC revived the Firestorm comic for the second time, with writer Dan Jolley and artist Chris Cross, but instead of the original Firestorm, Ronnie Raymond, there was a new protagonist ; Jason Rusch, a teenager.

" The name of Raymond de Péreille, the actual historic seigneur of Montségur, has a slight similarity to the protagonist of Eschenbach's epic, the knight Parzival.

Danny Dunn is the name of a fictional character and protagonist of a series of juvenile science fiction / adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams, in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Raymond Benson considered that " Octopussy " was a morality tale, with greed bringing repercussions years later to the main protagonist, Dexter Smythe.

He was the show's protagonist from seasons 1 to 9, when Petersen left the show as a regular, and was replaced by Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Raymond Langston ( M. D.

A hard-boiled detective novel in the film noir style, its protagonist is a private detective named Chandler ( an homage to author Raymond Chandler ) who is hired by a man who claims to have been poisoned by the same people responsible for a notorious gangland slaying.

In the late 1930s, Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than the more distanced, " operatives report " style of Hammett's Continental Op stories.

The October 1934 issue of Black Mask ( magazine ) | Black Mask featured the first appearance of the detective character whom Raymond Chandler would develop into the famous Philip Marlowe.

Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Most of the army of Jerusalem marched north with Philip, Raymond III, and Bohemond III to attack Hama, and Saladin took the opportunity to invade the kingdom.

Actors Xander Berkeley, Raymond Cruz, David Marshall Grant, and Philip Baker Hall make uncredited appearances in the film.

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical film directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, with story by Robert D. San Souci and screenplay by Rita Hsiao, Philip LaZebnik, Chris Sanders, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Raymond Singer.

The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe.

Aside from Adhemar and Raymond, other leaders he recruited throughout 1096 included Bohemond of Taranto, a southern Italian ally of the reform popes ; Bohemond's nephew Tancred ; Godfrey of Bouillon, who had previously been an anti-reform ally of the Holy Roman Emperor ; his brother Baldwin of Boulogne ; Hugh I, Count of Vermandois, brother of the excommunicated Philip I of France ; Robert Curthose, brother of William II of England ; and his relatives Stephen II, Count of Blois and Robert II, Count of Flanders.

Philip, as Baldwin's closest male kin on his paternal side ( he was Fulk's grandson and thus Baldwin's first cousin ; Raymond was Melisende's nephew and thus first cousin of Baldwin's father ), claimed authority superseding Raymond's regency.

* Raymond Chandler in his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), lets his private eye Philip Marlowe describe and comment on " a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.

Shaw's recording of " Nightmare " was used as the theme soundtrack for BBC Radio's adaptation of the Philip Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler.

Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye.