Marlowe (1969) | |
| Director(s) | Paul Bogart |
| Producer(s) | Sidney Beckerman, Gabriel Katzka |
| Top Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Top Topics | Detectives |
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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 CafeRobert 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 CafeGarner 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 CafeGarner 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 NoirishUS / 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 ScreenDick 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
Winslow Wong: May I reach for my pocket?
Philip Marlowe: It would give me great pleasure to see you do something foolish.
Philip Marlowe: You know where I can find Mavis?
Dolores Gonzáles: Mavis?
Philip Marlowe: She's not over at her place.
Dolores Gonzáles: Why should I turn you over to her?
Philip Marlowe: Because underneath the pasties is a size 40 heart.
[Dolores rolls her eyes]
Philip Marlowe: I thought you liked Mavis.
Dolores Gonzáles: I do like her, but why should she get all of the goodies?
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Facts about
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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