james raven.chapter 2 about 4 pages ina newscast bulletinprobably named Philip cause chandler's Philip Marlowe was making his bones in the early forties

I don't recall him being called Philip in the movie, but there is a trailer on youtube in which the voiceover calls his character "Philip Raven".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI9tVXwT9eQ
Occurs at 32 seconds in.

I have scanned the novel reasonable but not exhaustively, and he does not appear to be called Phillip anywhere in it.
However, I would want to re-read the book properly to confirm this. If anyone happens to be reading or re-reading it, and wants to keep an eye out for this, that would be great. "A Gun For Sale" is a really good book. It is quite different from the film, of course, but is well worth reading.

I can only remember him being called Raven in the book, but I'll check. A good question.

Philip Raven is how the name appears on the closing credits. I would guess, although I don't know for certain, that the name came from the novel. Raven is never called by anything but the single name Raven in the movie. I think, like Shane, he should have been billed with only the one name, especially as Raven is so appropriate for the charactor.

I haven't seen this yet, but the character's name is Philip Raven, right? My guess is most people call him Raven, because I know a lot of other spy people in 40s movies went by their last names and rarely by their first e.g. marlowe, spade, mccloud, etc.
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