ABSTRACT
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.
