The Bronze Door

The Bronze Door   by Raymond Chandler

Gallagher/Nagy Productions 

directed by Dan Gallagher

 

Shot October—November, 2006   Released Spring 2007

 

A film based on the short story by RAYMOND CHANDLER. Originally published in the cult magazine "Unknown Worlds," The Bronze Door combines crime fiction and film noir with dark fantasy.

 

 

Dramatis Personae

 

JAMES SUTTON-CORNISH: (Mick Tinder), a  Gentleman of the Old School, in grown alcoholic. Though henpecked, descends from a long line of military figures, unrepentant sinners, and hyphenates.

LLEWELLYN SUTTON-CORNISH: (Catherine Aselford) James’s spouse. A matronly tyrant exercising absolute control of the Sutton-Cornish family and its fortunes. A dog lover.

MISS COLLINS (): , The first parlor maid or butler. A starched, svelte, severe woman or man; a study of acute angles.

MISS BRUGGS: , The second parlor maid. Mercurial, naïve, doting, Collins’s antithesis.

JOSIAH SKIMP: , purveyor of antiquities. A sour, shabby, red-eyed little man. Owner of The Bronze Door and its first victim.

GEORGE: , Skimp’s nephew and employee. Skinny, vernacular, plainspoken.

THOMAS LLOYD: (Richard Cutting), Detective-sergeant. Terse, cynical, hard-boiled. Truth-seeker, and witness to James’s iniquitous end.

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