A so-so movie called Marlowe was on TV not too long ago so in honor of Raymond Chandler I started a review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movie had:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
what’s not to like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Over the years I’ve read and re-read all the Chandler books. This movie is based on one of the well-known ones: Little Sister<\/strong> (1949) … which is as of now on my list of books to reread!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The star is James Garner<\/strong> (Marlowe). Along with all the Perry Masons, I watched all 124 episodes of the Maverick<\/strong> series, many for multiple times. I guess he would be my favorite 60’s male hunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A co-star is Rita Moreno<\/strong>. She really was multi-talented and thus all over the TV back then. As likely to appear on performer on the Ed<\/strong> Sullivan Show<\/strong> as on be in a dramatic role Mannix<\/strong> or The Mod Squad<\/strong>. I had kind of a thing for her back in junior high \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n This movie was made when I was in college, so the hot young women are styled out just how I would have thought sexiest at that impressionable time in my young life! Beehives and other bouffant hairdos, little sleeveless tops tight enough to make boobs in hard-shell bras extra perky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n First scene is a dude snapping pics from the bushes of a movie star-looking couple in a hot tub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second scene is our hero, a cheap private eye going to his office and being harrassed by a weird but kinda cute blonde asking has he found her brother yet?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cheap private eye is Philip Marlowe<\/strong>! The girl is named Orfamay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are intended to put 2 and 2 together and conclude the brother she’s worried about is the photographer in the bushes in the first scene. That doesn’t come together in the movie until about 3\/4 the way through, but we viewers kind of know it all the way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First place Marlowe goes looking for the kid is a beatnik hangout by the beach. The first body is quick to follow. Turns out the norm here is an icepick perfect placed in a nexk nerve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second body is seen in the Featured Image. <\/em> I love the tilted head thing as Carrol O’Connor and the other guy discover he had a toupee. :))<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n The real Bruce Lee makes an appearance as a thug for the bad guy. He deserved better than this role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe that got some laughs in 1970, but it was just plain sad here on 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another 60’s touch was that the evil doctor takes Marlowe out with a doctored cigarette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plot gets kinda convoluted and incestous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The girl pestering Marlowe is the sister of the guy taking the dirty photos (Orrin<\/strong>). Much later we find that the movie star (Mavis<\/strong>) is their third sibling! It gets even more convoluted, until the end when Rita Moreno is killed by the doctor (what doctor?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not having fun reporting on all the double crosses, so I quit! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n It wasn’t that much fun at the end anyway. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A so-so movie called Marlowe was on TV not too long ago so in honor of Raymond Chandler I started a review: The movie had: what’s not to like? Over the years I’ve read and re-read all the Chandler books. 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The Movie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Convoluted and incestuous, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n