On this day in movie history - The Grey Fox (1982)

The Grey Fox

directed by Phillip Borsos,

written by John Hunter,

was released at the Taormina Film Festival, in Italy, on July 24, 1982.

Based on the true story of Bill Miner (1847–1913).

Music by Michael Conway Baker.

Cast:

Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Timothy Webber, Gary Reineke, David Petersen, Don MacKay, Samantha Langevin, Tom Heaton, Jim McLarty, George Dawson, Ray Michal, Stephen E. Miller, David L. Crowley, David McCulley, Garry Chalk, Jack Leaf, Isaac Hislop, Sean Sullivan, Bill Murdoch, Jack Ackroyd, Nicholas Rice, Frank C. Turner, Bill Meilen, David Raines, Paul Coeur, Mel Tuck, Peter John, Paul Whitney, David Ackridge, Murray Ord, Tom Glass, Antony Holland, Jon York, John Owen, Lisa Westman, Robert Milicevic.

On this day in movie history - Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Saving Private Ryan

directed by Steven Spielberg,

written by Robert Rodat,

was released in the United States on July 24, 1998.

Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Harrison Young, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Dennis Farina, Ted Danson, Harve Presnell, Bryan Cranston, David Wohl, Nathan Fillion, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Hurst, Max Martini, Leland Orser, Joerg Stadler, Dylan Bruno, Demetri Goritsas, Rolf Saxon, Corey Johnson, John Sharian, Glenn Wrage, Stéphane Cornicard, Dale Dye, Amanda Boxer, Kathleen Byron, Andrew Scott, Erich Redman.

On this day in music history - Strauss: Four Last Songs (2008)

Strauss: Four Last Songs

by Renée Fleming,

was released on July 24, 2008.

Track list:

Frühling; September; Beim Schlafengehen; Im Abendrot; Ach! Wo war ich? Tot? ...; Ein Schönes war; Es gibt ein Reich; Verführung, op. 33 no. 1; Freundliche Vision, op. 48 no. 1; Winterweihe, op. 48 no. 4; Zueignung, op. 10 no. 1; Zweite Brautnacht!; Eugene Onegin--Letter Scene; Rusalka--Song to the Moon; Otello--Willow Song...Ave Maria; Thaïs--Ah! Je suis seule...Dis-moi que je suis belle; Capriccio--Moonlight Music & Final Scene. 

Paul Auster, on writing:

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman.
You don't choose it so much as get chosen,
and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else,
you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
- Paul Auster.

Recommended reading - Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (1995)

Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels

 

Anthology by Raymond Chandler.

Edited by Frank MacShane.

ISBN-10: 1883011078
ISBN-13: 978-1883011079
 
Contents:
 
Pulp Stories: Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting. Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note on the texts. Notes.
 
Description:
 

In Raymond Chandler’s hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling detail, he created a fictional universe out of the dark side of au unlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the crime novel and American writing.

 

Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. In The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window, Marlowe’s investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective include such classics as “Red Wind” and “Trouble Is My Business.” This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America’s greatest mystery writer.

 

The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.

Born on this day – Birt Acres:

Birt Acres

Photographer

Director

Cinematographer

Producer

July 23, 1854 – December 27, 1918

Born on this day – Raymond Chandler:

 

Raymond Chandler

Writer

July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959

Credits:

Books:

Books to Die For (2012); Double Indemnity (1944); Farewell, My Lovely (1940); Five Murders (1944); Five Sinister Characters (1945); Goldfish (1981); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Hard-Boiled Detectives (1953); I’ll Be Waiting (2020); Killer in the Rain (1964); Los Angeles Noir 2 (2010); Mandarin's Jade (1937); No Crimes In The Mountains (1941); Only to Sleep (2018); Pearls are a Nuisance (1958); Perchance to Dream (1991); Pickup on Noon Street (1952); Playback (1958); Poodle Springs (1989); Pulp Fiction - The Dames (2008); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996); Red Wind (1946); Selected Letters (1981); Smart-Aleck Kill (1953); Spanish Blood (1946); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Big Sleep (1939); The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014); The Blue Dahlia (1976); The Curtain (1936); The Finger Man (1947); The Goodbye Coast (2022); The High Window (1942); The Lady in the Lake (1943); The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror (1992); The Little Sister (1949); The Long Goodbye (1953); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories (1988); The Man Who Liked Dogs (1996); The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); The Second Murderer (2023); The Simple Art of Murder (1950); The Smell of Fear (1965); The World of Raymond Chandler (2014); Trouble is My Business (1950); Try The Girl (1937); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

77 Sunset Strip (1958); And Now Tomorrow (1944); Aspetterò (1978); Cineficción Radio (2021); Climax! (1954); Danger (1953); Double Indemnity (1944 / 1973); Fallen Angels (1993–1995); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler (2006); Ich werde warten (1982); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949); Lady in the Lake (1946); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Marlowe (1969 / 2007 / 2022); Mike Case in: The Big Kiss Off (2013); Morning Patrol (1987); Murder, My Sweet (1944); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Omnibus (1969); Once You Meet a Stranger (1996); Philip Marlowe (1959–1960); Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986); Poodle Springs (1998); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Smart Philip (2003); Storyboard (1961); Strangers on a Train (1951); Studio One (1951–1953); The Big Sleep (1946 / 1978); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947); The Falcon Takes Over (1942); The Great Detectives (1999); The Long Goodbye (1973 / 2014); The Long Goodbye: Tom Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013); The Unseen (1945); Time to Kill (1942); Triple Feature (2016); TV de Vanguarda (1957).