Noir Double: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler vs The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

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Head to head review of two classic private eye novels.
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@paulmonahawk4921
@paulmonahawk4921 2 жыл бұрын
Loved both of these! Chandler is one of the best writers ever. Maltese Falcon is the only Hamnet I have read so far. Where Marlowe is obviously the good Knight Spade is more slippery and I was unsure… how is he going to act? right until the end! Classic stuff indeed!
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah bout really excellent! And both brilliant central characters
@robertgallagher5285
@robertgallagher5285 7 ай бұрын
Liked the kind of shadiness of Spade like Ellroy says Hammets detectives darker (more Noir) then Chandler's Marlowe think Marlowe great in 🎥 movies like Robert Mitchum!!!!!
@scdingundaroo
@scdingundaroo 2 жыл бұрын
For Raymond Chandler, I recommend The Long Goodbye. It was written towards the end of his life and, well, some may call it equal parts "sour" and "sentimental" (perhaps a combination that matches his cocktails in the story). Others have suggested that the negative portrait of the Wade character (a successful writer in the story) reflects a sense of self-loathing Chandler had for himself. But it was also written at the height of his powers and the depth to the character of Marlowe is wonderful.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
I'm reading them in order and looking forward to getting to that one. Just read The High Window
@retrog1
@retrog1 2 жыл бұрын
I gave both books 5 stars on Goodreads. I think you will love Hammett's Red Harvest ( the Continental Op cleans up a lawless town) and the Thin Man starring hard drinking PI couple Nick and Nora Charles
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
A few people have recommended Red Harvest! Thanks for watching!
@BookishChas
@BookishChas 2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Both of these books have been on my list to read. The movies are two of my favorite classic movies.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Definitely worth reading the books!
@robertgallagher5285
@robertgallagher5285 7 ай бұрын
More Modern movies of course Chinatown and if anyone has not seen it it was kind of a flop think it made a little can't recommend highly enough " Motherless Brooklyn" (a Brooklyn Chinatown MASTERPIECE)!!!!!
@Priscilla_Bettis
@Priscilla_Bettis 2 жыл бұрын
What an excellent idea for a video! "Deceptive people" is the first thing I thought of about these two stories. Well, that and the resulting movies.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Priscilla! And yes, they’re definitely packed with deceptive people!
@eriebeverly
@eriebeverly 2 жыл бұрын
Those are two books you never want to play a drinking game while reading. I prefer Hammett to Chandler but The Long Goodbye is my favorite book. But I think my preference for The Long Goodbye has more to do with the Altman film than the novel itself.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Ha re the drinking game! I definitely need to read more by both authors
@Kikilang60
@Kikilang60 5 ай бұрын
What I remember of these two stories is how they flip the damsel in distress trope. In both, the detective puts the women away. One, the woman begs him, "Don't you love me?" He says, "Sure, but you're still going prison or hung." Dude, outstanding. The other, the detective, sends the women to asylum for the criminally insane. Harsh, but again, groundbreaking. Up until then, women were never the bad guys. Truly groundbreaking in gender roles.
@robertgallagher5285
@robertgallagher5285 7 ай бұрын
It's hard to ever top the novel that made you love an author The Maltese Falcon made me love Hammet and The Big Sleep made me love Chandler none of their other books have ever been able to replace them like a first love same thing with Cains The Postman Always Rings Twice and Ellroy's The Black Dahlia!!!!!
@troytradup
@troytradup 2 жыл бұрын
I have the classy new Black Lizard reissues of both of those (along with Postman Always Rings Twice) sitting on my dresser right now. Maybe December?
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an excellent plan!
@MattWall
@MattWall 2 жыл бұрын
Yay! I love both of these. I too like chandler more. I think hard boiled stuff is always better in the first person. MF is classic though. I do like the continental op better than Sam spade. Have you read red harvest? That’s a damn banger!
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
No, really need to read more Hammett!
@juliealvar4587
@juliealvar4587 2 жыл бұрын
That background looks beautiful!
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ColonelFredPuntridge
@ColonelFredPuntridge 2 жыл бұрын
May I say a word or two about the movies? 1. The movie _The Maltese Falcon_ with Bogart and Mary Astor and the Sydny Greenstreet crowd is great, but the earlier (1931) version with Ricardo Cortez is great too, in a different kind of way. 2. The movie _The Big Sleep_ with Bogart and Lauren Bacall is great, but the later (1978) version with Robert Mitchum and Joan Collins is great too, in a different way. For one thing, it makes the story clear, unlike the Bogart version, which is completely obscure. It doesn't explain what happened to Rusty Regan, and it doesn't show that the point about Geiger's book store was that it was renting pornographic books, which was how it was blackmailing the customers.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
I am tempted to watch the Mitchum/Collins version - a few people have sung its praises.
@robertgallagher5285
@robertgallagher5285 7 ай бұрын
The parts of the plot you COULD understand in The Big Sleep was brilliant anyway ha,ha, but at times The Maltese Falcon got a little murky also Hammet was not completely innocent of that I think Effie Perrine a big factor in me prefering Falcon one minute she's sitting on his desk next chastising him and saying don't touch me NOW anyway it's close but I prefer Falcon!!!!!
@ColonelFredPuntridge
@ColonelFredPuntridge 7 ай бұрын
@@robertgallagher5285 The remake of THE BIG SLEEP with Robert Mitchum was much clearer and easier to follow.
@robertgallagher5285
@robertgallagher5285 7 ай бұрын
@@ColonelFredPuntridge liked Mitchum in The Big Sleep also thanks!!!!!
@robertgallagher5285
@robertgallagher5285 7 ай бұрын
@@ColonelFredPuntridge thanks everything so expensive really have to look at reviews!!!!
@DDB168
@DDB168 2 жыл бұрын
I like the Jack Bauer analogy. I need to read both of them.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
You do!
@bighardbooks770
@bighardbooks770 2 жыл бұрын
Good one, Olly, really good! Ive been a Bogart fan (Cagney, too) all my life (see his picture on my wall in the background of my videos). IMA do a deep-dive into _The Big Sleep,_ later today. 🔫 🤠 🕶️
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Oh cool! That’ll be interesting!
@mysterio1570
@mysterio1570 Жыл бұрын
Marlowe is more laid back. Spade is more prickly.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog Жыл бұрын
Solid assessment!
@anotherbibliophilereads
@anotherbibliophilereads 2 жыл бұрын
Both books are excellent. It’s been a few years since I read them, but I doubt I could pick the better of the two.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
They are both amazing. Looking forward to reading more by both authors
@TheBookclectic
@TheBookclectic 2 жыл бұрын
I read The Maltese Falcon and loved it! I haven't read The Big Sleep, but I probably should 🤔.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
You should!
@stephennootens916
@stephennootens916 2 жыл бұрын
I read and have seen big sleep and there is a noticeable difference. However while I have seen Maltese Falcon I have never read the book largely because as I understand it they are pretty much beat for beat the same.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Ah that’s interesting! I need to watch them I think
@aaronedgell9426
@aaronedgell9426 3 ай бұрын
I enjoy both books a great deal, but I've always been a Spillane guy.
@redbeard36
@redbeard36 5 ай бұрын
I've always compared The Big sleep with Red Harvest. First person narrator hired by a wealthy man, convoluted plot.
@5starubercar698
@5starubercar698 4 ай бұрын
In the forties, they had to omit the sex and drugs and that makes the plot confusing. The Mitchum version makes more sense.
@OleJoe
@OleJoe Жыл бұрын
Both are fantastic books, but I do prefer "The Big Sleep" to "The Maltese Falcon". Humphrey Bogart did an excellent job portraying both characters, but you have to remember that "The Big Sleep" was modified to promote the career of Lauren Bacall and to take off on her fantastic debut in "To Have and Have Not". In the book, the Sternwood girls are not nice people. Vivian and Carmen are two spoiled opertunist brats who Marlowe dispises.
@Nina_DP
@Nina_DP 2 жыл бұрын
Hello! I think this is my first comment. I just very recently re-read The Maltese Falcon. I had just finished Hammett's The Glass Key (also a re-read, and my favorite Hammett - you should definitely read it if you haven't already) and fell down a Hammett-shaped hole, also re-reading The Thin Man before my omnibus collection of Hammett novels was due back at the library. I'm a Chandler fan, too, but prefer The Long Goodbye to The Big Sleep. I went through a hard-boiled noir phase in my 20s, which were many, many (many!) decades ago. In a Hammett-Chandler grudge match, I'm a Hammett girl all the way. For my money, he is the originator of the genre. AND he was really a dick, too. (The private kind). Now Humphrey Bogart … I would watch read the phone book.
@Nina_DP
@Nina_DP 2 жыл бұрын
PS: Great thumbnail!
@charleshagen1143
@charleshagen1143 2 жыл бұрын
hi ya! re-reading the Thin Man also! love the dialogue and the drinking!
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Hello! Firstly thank you for watching and commenting! I really do want to read some more Hammett, as well as finishing my Chandler collection. I prefer Chandler on the basis of these two books, but could see myself being swayed!
@anneworks
@anneworks 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, you're very good at spoiler free reviews. The Maltese Falcon is a lonely exotic bird in my book collection. Picked it up on a whim, though I've not seen the movie. I'm not going to make dicktember anymore, but I might do a private dicktober.
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Anne! Hope you enjoy it when you get to it
@kevinrussell-jp6om
@kevinrussell-jp6om 4 ай бұрын
You didn't mention that both put most of their fiction in California. Hammett was first and even Chandler is quoted as saying Hammett first wrote scenes that had never been produced before. Hammett was a detective; Chandler, with his innate artistry, turned himself into the premier noir/detective author. Don't get me wrong, I love all of Hammett's fiction (especially the Op) and consider Maltese and the Glass Key as similar productions. The Thin Man (cynical, tired, sophisticated, and SOAKED in booze) is a delight but not as hard edged like much of his early work. Chandler IS superior. When you pick up a Marlowe story, you are instantly in LA of the late 30's and 40's, the characters and settings are real, and you wish you could stay. The Big Sleep is NOT my favorite or the best, but the middle five are as good as they get. I love the Long Goodbye for lots of reasons, but the High Window, Farewell, Lady in the Lake, and Little Sister will more than do in a pinch. No one wrote dialog like Chandler. Neither Chandler nor Hammett were particularly nice people, but they both possessed artistic genius. Sure, I read other detective fiction, but Chandler & Hammett are so far in front of the others it's really a two-horse race.
@slothrob
@slothrob 2 жыл бұрын
The Big Sleep is famous for having an indecipherable plot, but is still fantastic for the dialog. The movie is wonderful, too, and appears to be about the world's sexiest bookstore. You'll see...
@CriminOllyBlog
@CriminOllyBlog 2 жыл бұрын
Ha ha well now I really need to watch it
@slothrob
@slothrob 2 жыл бұрын
@@CriminOllyBlog You really do!
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