Marlowe (1969)
7/10
Entertaining
30 August 2020
For those of us who like Chandler, it is an enjoyable movie. Garner and the rest of the cast are good. Carroll O'Connor makes a great LAPD detective and, of course, Bruce Lee is Bruce Lee. The 60's ambiance works and the music is cool. The director gets the style right but the script is incomplete. Chandler's novel has a complex but precise plot; however, the movie omits the murder of another gangster called Sunny Moe Stein, and half the rationale of the plot is gone, so characters like Dr Lagardie don't make sense. It was possible to write a tighter script.
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