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Marlowe (1969) was a Mystery - Crime Film directed by Paul Bogart and produced by Sidney Beckerman and Gabriel Katzka.

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Robert Mitchum as a Contemporary Marlowe in The Big Sleep

By Rick29 on Nov 4, 2019 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Robert Mitchum as Marlowe. The biggest knock against Michael Winner's 1978 adaptation of The Big Sleep was his decision to transplant the story to contemporary England. It was surely an odd choice, especially since Raymond Chandler's novels paint a rich, vibrant portrait of urban California life in... Read full article


James Garner Makes a Fine Marlowe

By Rick29 on May 4, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Garner as Chandler's detective. Having consumed the Philip Marlowe novels as a teenager, I'm typically hard on the film adaptations of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective. The only one that truly captures Chandler's cynical protagonist and his unflattering portrait of L.A. is Murder, My Sweet.... Read full article


James Garner Makes a Fine Marlowe

By Rick29 on May 4, 2017 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Garner as Chandler's detective. Having consumed the Philip Marlowe novels as a teenager, I'm typically hard on the film adaptations of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective. The only one that truly captures Chandler's cynical protagonist and his unflattering portrait of L.A. is Murder, My Sweet.... Read full article


Where?s Marlowe? (1998)

By John Grant on Nov 12, 2016 From Noirish

US / 99 minutes / color with some bw / Western Sandblast, H2O Paramount Dir: Daniel Pyne Pr: Clayton Townsend Scr: John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne Cine: Greg Gardiner Cast: Miguel Ferrer, Mos Def, John Livingston, Allison Dean, John Slattery, Elizabeth Schofield, Barbara Howard, Clayton Rohner, Miguel ... Read full article


Dick Powell takes on Philip Marlowe

By Aurora on Nov 14, 2013 From Once Upon a Screen

Dick Powell was a huge success as a musical/comedy star in the 1930s. ?But by the 1940s?many considered him little more than an aging matin?e idol, a perception he was sick of and intended on changing. [observation, 1936] “I’m not a kid anymore but I’m still playing boy scouts.R... Read full article


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Quotes from Marlowe:

Philip Marlowe: You're light on your feet, Winslow. Are you just a little gay, huh?


Mavis Wald: [pulling a gun on Marlowe] Turn around.
Philip Marlowe: If that were a .45, I wouldn't argue. But a .32, I can get in a couple of words.
[Mavis raises the gun higher]
Philip Marlowe: I've said them all... But don't forget you're a lady.


Philip Marlowe: [with a gun held on him] I like your perfume. What is it?


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Facts about Marlowe:

This is one of only two movies that Bruce Lee did where he speaks with his own natural voice. The other is Enter the Dragon. This is also the only film in which Lee played a villain.
This was the last film broadcast for WABC-TV's (New York) afternoon slot, "The 4:30 Movie", on 26 November 1981.
In the nightclub scene, Marlowe (James Garner) takes a sip of wine and smirking, judges it "impertinent. . .even baroque." These were the exact words that a character in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (published a year earlier) had used to describe Garner's butt in an excerpt from an obtuse film journal that appeared in the novel. Obviously, an inside joke and from Garner's smarmy delivery of what was otherwise a pointless remark, he was very much in on the gag.
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