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The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words / by Chandler, Raymond,1888-1959.; Day, Barry (Playwright),editor of compilation.;
"Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, with its resulting changing vernacular. Through his fiction and letters, brilliantly woven together, Chandler reveals what it was like to be a writer, and in particular what it was to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction in what was for him "another language." Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Somerset Maugham, among others. Here is Chandler's Los Angeles, a city he adopted and which adopted him in the post-World War I period ... Chandler on his Hollywood, working with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others...Chandler ... organized crime and on his alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armour who walks the "mean streets" in a world not made for knights ... on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcohol -- and loneliness) ... and here are Chandler's women -- the Little Sisters; the dames -- in his fiction -- and his life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.; Authors, American; Detective and mystery stories;
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Miracle on 34th Street [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Cowan, Jerome,1897-1972,actor.; Frawley, William,1887-1966,actor.; Gwenn, Edmund,1875-1959,actor.; Hall, Porter,1888-1953,actor.; Lockhart, Gene,1891-1957,actor.; O'Hara, Maureen,1920-2015,actor.; Payne, John,1912-1989,actor.; Seaton, George,1911-1979,film director,screenwriter.; Tonge, Philip,1897-1959,actor.; Wood, Natalie,1938-1981,actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Story by Valentine Davies.Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan, and Philip Tonge.A department store Santa Claus claims to be the real thing. He's put on trial and it's up to a young lawyer to clear Santa's name. A modern fable about love and faith.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.Blu-ray disc, AVC @ 22 MBPS (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic full screen format (1.33:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, mono.Academy Awards: Best Original Story, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn, 1947
Subjects: Christmas films.; Feature films.; Christmas; Mothers and daughters; Santa Claus;
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All quiet on the western front [videorecording] / by Abbott, George,1887-1995.; Alexander, Ben,1911-1969.; Alexander, Richard,1902-1989.; Anderson, Maxwell,1888-1959.; Andrews, Del,d. 1942.; Ayres, Lew,1908-1996.; Bakewell, William,1908-; Davis, Owen,1907-1949.; Gleason, Russell,1908-1945.; Goodwin, Harold,1902-1987.; Kolk, Scott.; Laemmle, Carl,1908-1979.; Lucy, Arnold,1865-1945.; Milestone, Lewis,1895-1980.; Remarque, Erich Maria,1898-1970.Im Westen nichts Neues.Videorecording.; Rogers, Walter Browne,1906-1943.; Summerville, Slim,1892-1946.; Wolheim, Louis.; Wray, John,1887-1940.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm); Universal-International (Firm);
Cinematographer, Arthur Edeson ; film editor, Edgar Adams.Louis Wolheim, Lewis Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis, Jr., Walter Browne Rogers, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Richard Alexander, Harold Goodwin, Slim Summerville.A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD; Dolby digital, full screen presentation.Academy Award for Best Picture, 1929-30
Subjects: Anti-war films.; Death; Feature films.; Soldiers; War films.; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
© c2012., Universal Home Video,
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