by Raymond Chandler · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401929656
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«La dalia azul» is the film noir screenplay by Raymond Chandler, published by Plaza & Janés in 1987 in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Screenplay written by Raymond Chandler for Paramount based on a novel he had left unfinished. It tells the story of a war veteran suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife, with the structure of noir fiction: lone hero, quest for justice, corrupt society, and personal honor.
Original title: The Blue Dahlia. Written for Paramount in 1944, it earned Chandler his second Oscar nomination. Gran Reno Policial collection.
For fans of noir fiction and Raymond Chandler, interested in his work as a screenwriter and his relationship with classic Hollywood.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
