An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963.An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963.An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963.
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- TriviaAt the request of Raymond Chandler's estate, his novel was completed by Robert B. Parker and published in 1989.
- GoofsWhile Marlowe is talking to Muffy in his apartment, the newspaper article on the coffee table keeps changing position without being touched - alternatively jumping on and off the envelope and the table.
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Philip Marlowe: I'll see you tonight.
Laura Parker-Marlowe: [flippantly] Which jail?
Philip Marlowe: Look, Mrs. Marlowe, I'm just a lug. There are things I can do, like shoot, I can keep my word, I can tail a guy who's walking backwards, I can open a door into a dark room where there's trouble waiting... and so, I do them. I find work that fits what I do. I get a hundred dollars a day. I can't be bought or pushed. Not even for love.
Laura Parker-Marlowe: [pauses, then, softly] Okay.
- SoundtracksThe Times They Are A-Changin'
Written by Bob Dylan
Phillip Marlowe is the paradigm 1940s private investigator, but setting this story in 1963, four years after Chandler's death in 1959, is not only correct, it is part of the material's distinguished treatment. Had Chandler lived a few more years, this might well be the Marlowe he wrote for us. Parker, Rafelson and Stoppard have honored the Chandler-Marlowe heritage as the golden fleece of the American film noir and hard-boiled genres. Which, of course, it is.
One question: Why did I just happen to catch this on cable TV a year after it was released? I'd never heard anything about it. Such excellent work deserves publicity. Lots of it.
- magbo
- Aug 2, 1999
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