A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Warren Oates | ... | Chandler | |
| Leslie Caron | ... | Katherine Creighton | |
| Alex Dreier | ... | Ross J. Carmady | |
| Mitchell Ryan | ... | Charles 'Chuck' Kincaid | |
| Gordon Pinsent | ... | John Melchior | |
| Charles McGraw | ... | Bernie Oakman | |
| Richard Loo | ... | Leo | |
| Gloria Grahame | ... | Selma | |
| Royal Dano | ... | Sal Sachese (scenes deleted) | |
| Walter Burke | ... | Zeno | |
| Marianne McAndrew | ... | Angel Carter | |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Smoke | |
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Lal Baum | ... | Waxwell |
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Charles Shull | ... | Binder Ransin |
| John Mitchum | ... | Rudy, Bartender | |
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A hardboiled aging private eye is hired to find and protect a missing government witness sought after by the gangsters. The witness is a beautiful French woman and even the cops can't be trusted. The case is tough, but so is Chandler.
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Chandler is a private eye. It's a hard way to make a living... and an easy way to die.Parents Guide:
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1 December 1971 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Chandler: I'm a relic.
Katherine Creighton: I can see that.
Chandler: I got tired. Thought I'd go up to San Quentin, and strap myself into an electric chair.
Katherine Creighton: Except at San Quentin, it's the gas chamber...
[laughs]
Katherine Creighton: Nothing ever works out.
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Chandler seems to be a homage to private eye author Raymond Chandler and his character Phillip Marlowe. Chandler' s stories took place in L.A. See more »Goofs
Toward the end of the movie, Chandler and Katherine are running out of the nightclub thru the kitchen door. They bump into a chef (chef's hat) carrying a tray with one hand full of empty dishes. See more »Quotes
Katherine Creighton: What are you?Chandler: I'm a relic.
Katherine Creighton: I can see that.
Chandler: I got tired. Thought I'd go up to San Quentin, and strap myself into an electric chair.
Katherine Creighton: Except at San Quentin, it's the gas chamber...
[laughs]
Katherine Creighton: Nothing ever works out.
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Former private eye-turned-security guard ditches his latest droning job and is immediately offered a chance to return to his previous profession. His assignment: to tail a mysterious French woman newly arrived in California...and apparently wanted by suit-and-tie racketeers. Unsuccessful attempt to update the film noir genre, without enough sting or wit (or involving plot dynamics) in the screenplay. Director and co-scenarist Paul Magwood (who later claimed the picture was edited without his involvement) doesn't give off the impression of having high regard for the '40s films his "Chandler" was borne from; his nostalgia is appropriately rumpled, but also bitter-tinged and somewhat indifferent. The handling is curiously, commendably low-keyed, and Warren Oates is well-cast as this '70s variant on the 'private dick' archetype, but the movie doesn't have any snap. Nice to see Leslie Caron and Gloria Grahame in the cast--though neither has much to do, and Caron's hot-and-cold running character is exasperating throughout. Vivid cinematography by Alan Stensvold, nice location shooting, but it fails to come to any kind of a boil. *1/2 from ****