| Marlowe | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Bogart
Actors: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1539
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301986105
UPC: 027616028839
EAN: 9786301986106
ASIN: 6301986105
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1969
Release Date: March 5, 2002
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Condition: original and authentic..exactly as shown..excellent condition....plays flawlessly!!
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 2.5, maybe... December 16, 2002
Raymond Chandler's wisecracking, star-crossed private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into the swinging '60s where hopheads, strippers and psychiatrists join the usual compliment of thugs and goons that make his life miserable. James Garner gets a nice dry run for the "Rockford Files" TV show, while Rita Moreno bares all in her climactic stripping scene. Honestly, the script is not that great -- for the life of me I couldn't actually figure out who did what, or why... But it's still a fun film, in a campy kinda way. The film's one truly great moment is a scene is with Caroll O'Connor as a police detective who, having wearied of playing Marlowe's schnook, bursts into a violent tirade about how lousy his job is, and nearly beats the handcuffed private eye to death. It's a scene that could stand tasteful recycling elsewhere and, I suspect, was only in the film because O'Connor improv-ed it and made *something* good happen in this otherwise somewhat addled production...
 Garner as Private Eye as Tenatious as a Bobo Doll July 14, 2002
Garner wins our sympathy as a battered P.I. who's client doesn't like him and neither do the thugs who cross his path. This movie will make you feel like laughing and crying at the some time. But you know that Marlowe is tough enough to come out on top at the end of the day. Sort of corny in a Seventies kind of way, Marlowe is definitely comforting mind candy so curl up with a bowl of popcorn and enjoy!
 "Rockford Files"+ "Shaft" = "Marlowe" A terrible combonation January 1, 2002
The title for this review says it all, it's exactly what "Marlowe" is. This is an atrocity.
Who could forget the performances that shaped Marlowe's film persona. Bogart, Mitchum, and even Powers Boothe. They knew how to do it. Garner on the other hand serves up a warmed over rehash of his "Rockford" role. As for the musical score and
overall tone of the film, it recalls movies like "Shaft" and too a lesser and unflattering extent "James Bond." More than anything else "Marlowe" is pathetic, it is pathetic because
it could have been well done, if anyone in the cast or crew had given any sort of consideration to the source material. Why did they have to ruin it? It isn't as if the public wouldn't have enjoyed a genuine effort. Yes, America was entering the seventies and movies of this sort were probably a big box office draw. But, just six years later Hollywood made "Farewell, My Lovely," and they made it well staying true to Chandler.
Now, that film is a modern classic among Chandler fans. "Marlowe" had the potential to do the same, but chose instead to drown itself in a cesspool of seventies sludge. That is truly sad.
 play it again Marlowe October 26, 2001
This is a very entertaining 60's detective romp. It isn't too dated for the most part. It is interesting to see a few of Rockford's traits in Marlowe, the Oreo cookies, the charm, and the slightly illegal activities.
He is attacked by Bruce Lee's character and finesses his way out.
He ends up further behind than he started like Rockford.I enjoyed this movie and found it unpredictable, funny and a precursor to Rockford.
Austin Powers meets Humphrey Bogart August 15, 2001
James Garner followed Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell's 1940's act (and preceded Elliot Gould and Robert Mitchum) in this late 60's revival of Raymond Chandler's classic shamus character, with mixed results. Marlowe's deadpan private dick persona seems a bit out of place with all the love beads, paisley and acid-spiked cigarettes swirling about him. (I suppose you could argue that it boosts the film's appeal on a purely camp level). Garner makes up for most of the incongruity (and the rather complicated plot) with his usual devil-may-care on-screen appeal. A few supporting perfomances also keep things moving along, including a very sexy Rita Moreno and surprisingly funny Bruce Lee. Lee eats up his two brief scenes with much aplomb and choreographs a memorable rooftop "exit" for his irrepressible Winston Wong. Not classic Chandler, but an entertaining curio nonetheless.
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