Raymond Chandler's work as a Hollywood screenwriter includes great movies such as Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity and Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. In addition, all but one of Chandler's novels has been adapted for the movies. His Philip Marlowe books have inspired classics that include Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep and Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet as well as satires of the detective film like Paul Bogart's Marlowe and Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. William Luhr's incisive analysis reveals how powerfully Chandler has influenced the genre of the detective film.