FAULKNER AND RAYMOND CHANDLER.

FAULKNER AND RAYMOND CHANDLER. William Faulkner was one of the script writers for the movie of THE BIG SLEEP. The book reads like a screenplay, with many of the big scenes in the movie coming straight out of the book. However, the movie has a lot of double entendres that are not in the book. One example: Philip Marlowe hails a cab and says to the young man driving it, “This is a tail job.” In the movie, the cab driver is a girl who turns to Marlowe and says, “I’m your girl.” It’s jolly to think of Faulkner devising the double entendres, although there were other screenwriters.