2The Noir Hero
“You’re a tough guy. You’ve been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you’re crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let’s see you do something really tough – like putting your pants on.”
(Murder, My Sweet)
Film noir producer Dore Schary said he believed that the writers had the most liberal influence on film noir. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett were perhaps the most influential people in what was to become the film noir “movement.” Their private detective pulp novels were made into films and Chandler wrote the screenplays for several others. But most significantly they established a new style of character which was very well received by the film-going public, the hard-boiled wise guy.
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