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Movie
Marlowe
Synopsis
James Garner is so good as Raymond Chandler's philosophical gumshoe Philip Marlowe that you forget he's totally wrong for the part. Based on Chandler's The Little Sister, Marlowe involves the detective's efforts to locate the missing brother of Orfamay Quest (Sharon Farrell). He follows the clues to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Since both men soon find themselves on the wrong end of an ice pick, Marlowe deduces that there's more to this caper than a mere missing-person case. The plot thickens as more "dramatis personae" are added to the intrigues, including TV star Gayle Hunnicutt, Hunnicutt's gangster boyfriend H.M. Wynant and stripper Rita Moreno. A pre-stardom Bruce Lee shows up as a karate-happy thug who lays waste to Marlowe's office shortly before suffering a spectacular demise. It is preferable to view Marlowe in videocassette or theatrical form; the commercial TV print cuts so much out that viewers are left with virtually nothing but protection leader and a few close-ups of James Garner.
Cast
- James Garner
- Carroll O'Connor
- Rita Moreno
- Sharon Farrell
- Gayle Hunnicutt
- William Daniels
- H.M. Wynant
- Jackie Coogan
- Kenneth Tobey
- Nate Esformes
- Bruce Lee
- Christopher Cary
- George Tyne
- Corinne Comacho
- Paul Stevens
- Roger Newman
- Boyd 'Red' Morgan
- Warren Finnerty
- Bartlett Robinson
- Ted Derby
- Carol Ann Daniels
- Marlain Kallevig
- Chet Stratton
- Read Morgan
- Hoke Howell
- Mark Allen
- Jason Wingreen
- Ann Carroll
- Emil Alegata
- Isabel Colley
- Bert L. Bantle
- Tony Conkle
- Dee Carroll
- Jack English
- Lou Whitehill
- Mary Wilcox
- Tom Monroe
- Nicole Jaffe
- Camille Grant
- Fay Wilkie
- Buddy Garion
- Paul Micale
- Angus Duncan
- J. McMillan Johnson
- Florence Hackett
- William Tuttle
- Bruce Lee
- Stirling Silliphant
- Virgil Beck
- Hugh Hunt
- Phil Rhodes
- Peter Matz
- Addison Hehr
- Gene Ruggiero
- Jimmy Taylor
- William H. Daniels
- Jean Louis
- George W. Davis