Category Archives: Films

Often considered as one of the greatest of film noir movies (in some lists, in the top thirty movies of all time), “Double Indemnity” was directed by Billy Wilder with script by him and Raymond Chandler. If you don’t know … Continue reading →

I first got interested in the books of Raymond Chandler in the late 1970s when the BBC broadcast a sereis of plays based on his books with Ed Bishop (Captain Blue, Ed Straker etc) as Marlowe. The radio plays were, … Continue reading →

Warner Brothers always seemed to have the lead in gangster films, just as MGM was always associated with the best musicals. Their go to stars included Edward G Robinson and James Cagney. Cagney is an interesting character. He was still … Continue reading →