Marlowe (1969 film)
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| Directed by | Paul Bogart |
| Produced by | Sidney Beckerman Gabriel Katzka |
| Screenplay by | Stirling Silliphant |
| Story by | Novel The Little Sister: Raymond Chandler |
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James Garner Gayle Hunnicutt Carroll O'Connor Rita Moreno Bruce Lee |
| Music by | Peter Matz |
| Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
| Edited by | Gene Ruggiero |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Marlowe is a 1969 neo-noir film starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe. Directed by Paul Bogart, the film was written by Stirling Silliphant based on Chandler's 1949 novel The Little Sister.
The supporting cast includes Bruce Lee, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, Carroll O'Connor and Jackie Coogan.
The film foreshadowed James Garner's second Los Angeles P.I. character Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files. Rita Moreno would also go on to co-star as a recurring character in the series.
Many of the wisecracking Marlowe lines incorporated by Silliphant for this movie were taken directly from Chandler's novel. Silliphant is best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplay for In the Heat of the Night (1967) and creating the television series Route 66 and Naked City.
This movie introduced martial arts legend Bruce Lee to many American film viewers.
The film's title song "Little Sister" (named after the novel from which the film is derived) is provided by the group Orpheus.
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