Leigh Brackett

Highlighted works

• The Long Goodbye

  Robert Altman’s masterly adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel tells of betrayal, murder and moral codes.

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  The Big Sleep

  Howard Hawks reteamed Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall for this stylish and seductive adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s labyrinthine private-eye novel.

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  Rio Bravo

  A decade after Red River (1947), Howard Hawks reteamed with John Wayne for this rambling western riffing on the director’s usual themes of friendship and professionalism.