Burning Witches
Michael Rogin, 4 September 1997
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,0 7011 6310 0 Show More
by Tom Hiney.
Chatto, 310 pp., £16.99, May 1997,
Raymond Chandler Speaking
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine SorleyWalker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,0 520 20835 8 Show More
edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine SorleyWalker.
California, 288 pp., £10.95, May 1997,
“... film, finding ‘ludicrous in its essence’ the chance encounter that leads the deranged Robert Walker, in a skin-crawling, over-the-top performance, to imagine he has made a pact to exchange murders, to kill Farley Granger’s estranged, pregnant wife and then to haunt Granger to get him to return the favour and kill his father. Chandler’s discomfort ... ”