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31 October 1969 (USA)
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Quiet young Orfamay Quest from Kansas has hired private detective Philip Marlowe to find her brother...
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Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 4 November 2009, 12:49 PM, PST)
The Long Goodbye: Elliott Gould Remembers Robert Altman
(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 May 2009, 2:01 PM, PDT)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 4 November 2009, 12:49 PM, PST)
The Long Goodbye: Elliott Gould Remembers Robert Altman
(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 May 2009, 2:01 PM, PDT)
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Chandler's Marlowe transferred to the '60s...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Garner | ... | Philip Marlowe |
 | Gayle Hunnicutt | ... | Mavis Wald |
 | Carroll O'Connor | ... | Lt. Christy French |
 | Rita Moreno | ... | Dolores Gonzáles |
 | Sharon Farrell | ... | Orfamay Quest |
| William Daniels | ... | Mr. Crowell |
 | H.M. Wynant | ... | Sonny Steelgrave |
| Jackie Coogan | ... | Grant W. Hicks |
| Kenneth Tobey | ... | Sgt. Fred Beifus |
 | Bruce Lee | ... | Winslow Wong |
| Christopher Cary | ... | Chuck |
| George Tyne | ... | Oliver Hady |
| Corinne Camacho | ... | Julie |
| Paul Stevens | ... | Dr. Vincent Lagardie |
| Roger Newman | ... | Orrin Quest |
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96 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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West Germany:18 (nf) |
Germany:12 (DVD rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:M (original rating) |
USA:PG
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In the nightclub scene, Marlowe (James Garner) takes a sip of wine and smirking, judges it "impertinent. . .even baroque." These were the exact words that a character in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (published a year earlier) had used to describe Garner's butt in an excerpt from an obtuse film journal that appeared in the novel. Obviously, an inside joke and from Garner's smarmy delivery of what was otherwise a pointless remark, he was very much in on the gag.
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Thug:
Car.
Philip Marlowe: Beep, beep.
[Marlowe tries to walk away, but is blocked by the Thug]
Thug: Car.
Philip Marlowe: For a guy with a limited vocabulary, you sure do manage to get your point across.
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Philip Marlowe: Beep, beep.
[Marlowe tries to walk away, but is blocked by the Thug]
Thug: Car.
Philip Marlowe: For a guy with a limited vocabulary, you sure do manage to get your point across.
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Featured in The Unbeatable Bruce Lee (2001) (V)
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LITTLE SISTER
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Shifting Chandler's private eye to the '60s seems to work fairly well, although I still miss the film noir look of the gritty '40s melodramas with either Humphrey Bogart or George Montgomery as Marlowe. In addition, filming this one in color to take advantage of some Los Angeles locations, was not necessarily the best idea.
JAMES GARNER works well as Marlowe, although I still prefer the dry delivery of Humphrey Bogart and his one-liners in THE BIG SLEEP. But Garner is at his physical peak and makes a persuasive private detective on the trail of someone's missing brother. Along the way, he gets involved with the usual assortment of disreputable characters who occupy seedy hotel rooms and the shady side of town.
With a supporting cast that includes CARROLL O'CONNOR, JACKIE COOGAN and RITA MORENO (as a stripper), it's a stylish updating of Chandler's novel, "The Little Sister". And let's not forget BRUCE LEE who does a Karate job on Garner's office wall and furniture.
Too many of the early scenes drag and it's an hour into the story before the plot gets any livelier. In short, the plot remains rather flat and devoid of any real urgent suspense in spite of the fact that it deals with ice pick murders.
Summing up: Despite the okay performance from Garner, it remains a flabby exercise in suspense, lacking the terse quality of Chandler's stories and doesn't really perk up until the last ten minutes.