Raymond Chandler hides in plain sught

[Robin Landseadel]

	For more than 50 years, Raymond Chandler sat unnoticed in a
	hallway in "Double Indemnity," neglected by film fans and
	readers alike. But the Guardian has reported that earlier this
	year, two careful watchers -- one American, one French -- each
	discovered what they thought to be Raymond Chandler making
	a secret cameo.


	"It's just unmistakeably him. I'd lay money on it," says Judith
	Freeman, author of "The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler
	and the Woman He Loved."


	While researching her Chandler biography, Freeman never
	once saw mention of the appearance in Chandler's papers, not
	at the Bodleian Library in Oxford or at UCLA. "Believe me, I
	really combed over both archives," she said. But she watched
	the film again. "And sure enough, by damn, there he was, and
	in my mind there is absolutely no question that it's Chandler."

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