Tony Resick
Created by Raymond Chandler

As far as I know, TONY RESICK only appeared in one story, Raymond Chandler's classic, "I'll Be Waiting", but it was a memorable appearance.

Tony is markedly different from Chandler's other detectives, who are either Philip Marlowe or Philip Marlowe-clones (Mallory, Carmady, John Dalmas, etc.).

Tony is "a short, pale, paunchy, middle-aged man with long delicate fingers" who wears an elk's tooth on his watch chain, and works as a hotel dick at the Windermere Hotel. He has an ear for classical music, believing, "Mozart was the greatest man that ever lived--and Toscanini is his prophet."

Although mild-mannered, Tony is a brave little guy, putting it on the line for an ex-con who's staying at the Windermere, while "the trouble boys" are waiting outside to finish him off.

"I'll Be Waiting" has been included in a few recent anthologies, and Tom Hanks directed and appeared in an excellent adaptation of the story for the TV series, Fallen Angels, which starred Bruno Kirby, Dan Hedaya, and Marg Helgenberger.

Both the story, and the adaptation are well worth checking out.

SHORT STORIES

• "I'll Be Waiting" (October 14, 1939, Saturday Evening Post)

TELEVISION

• FALLEN ANGELS
  (1993-95, Showtime)
  Half-hour drama anthology
  Series creator: William Horberg
  Directors:  Peter Bogdanovich, Tom Cruise, Alfonso Cuarón, Tom Hanks, Agnieszka Holland, Phil Joanou, Jonathan Kaplan, Michael Lehmann, Jim McBride, Steven Soderbergh  
  Producers: William Horberg, Lindsay Doran, Steve Golin
  Co-producer:David Wisnievitz
  Executive Producer: Sydney Pollack
  Theme composed by Elmer Bernstein
  Original music by Peter Bernstein  
  Cinematography by Robert Brinkmann, Emmanuel Lubezki, Declan Quinn, Peter Suschitzky
  A Mirage Enterprises/Propaganda Films/Showtime Networks Inc. Production
  Starring Lynette Walden as FAY FRIENDLY
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• "I'll Be Waiting" (1993)
  Based on the short story by Raymond Chandler
  Teleplay by C. Gaby Mitchell
  Directed by Tom Hanks
  Starring Bruno Kirby as TONY RESICK
  Also starring Dan Hedaya, Marg Helgenberger, Jon Polito, Dick Miller, Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks, Manny Perry

Respectfully submitted by Frank Patterson.