Monday, May 16, 2011

Marlowe


Marlowe DVD review here. Great film worth buying for Bruce Lee's scenes and Rita Moreno's sexy dance number. I always felt Marlowe was a little misplaced in the 1960s but overall I liked the film.

1969 trailer

8 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

I thought Garner did a good job here.And indeed Marlowe was misplaced in the sixties, just as the Mitchum remake of THE BIG SLEEP transferred to England was an incredibly bad idea.

David Cranmer said...

Yeah what were they thinking with SLEEP?! Especially after they did so well with Mitchum's FAREWELL MY LOVELY.

Dan said...

Didn't Jimmy Caan play Marlowe on television?

pattinase (abbott) said...

I have no memory of Bruce Lee in this one. Have to rent it again.

David Cranmer said...

Dan, Caan played Phillip Marlowe in a 1990s HBO film. It was based on the last novel and is called POODLE SPRINGS.

Patti, There's a great scene where Lee destroys Marlowe's office.

Evan Lewis said...

...and the film seems almost like a pilot for The Rockford Files.

Naomi Johnson said...

I've never seen this one, but I've got in my Netflix queue. I'll watch anything with James Garner. He rarely erred when choosing his roles.

David Cranmer said...

That pretty much was always my take, Evan.

Very true, Naomi. And he has had a helluva run from the 1950s until today.