Letters Of Note: A Bitter Note From Crime Novelist Raymond Chandler To Film Director Alfred Hitchcock Regarding the Film 'Strangers On A Train'

Jason Boog at MediaBistro.com offers a look at a note Raymond Chandler wrote to Alfred Hitchcock, blasting him about the script for the film Strangers on a Train.

The excellent Letters of Note site has posted a bitter note that private detective novelist Raymond Chandler mailed to Alfred Hitchcock, an angry sermon punctuated with this zippy line: “if you wanted something written in skim milk, why on earth did you bother to come to me in the first place?”

You can read the rest of the piece an watch a trailer from Strangers on a Train via the below link:

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/raymond-chandler-blasts-alfred-hitchcock_b45139

Unsettling Prose From Patricia Highsmith, Author of "Strangers On A Train"

My friend and former editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Frank Wilson, wrote a very good review of a new collection of Patricia Highsmith's novels and stories

Highsmith, the author of psychological thrillers such as Strangers On a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, had a couple of dozen films made from her works. The most famous film adaptation is Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On a Train.

You can read read Frank Wilson's review in The Philadelphia Inquirer via the below link:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20110227_Unsettling_prose_from_author_of__quot_Stranger_on_a_Train_quot_.html

You can also read Frank Wilson's popular literary blog, Books, Inq, via the below link:

http://booksinq.blogspot.com/