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Marlowe is a 1969 American neo-noir film [2] starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe. Directed by Paul Bogart, the film was written by Stirling Silliphant based on Chandler's 1949 novel The Little Sister.
Quiet young Orfamay Quest from Kansas has hired private detective Philip Marlowe to find her brother. After two leads turn up with ice picks stuck in them, he discovers blackmail photos concerning TV star Mavis Wald. She rejects Marlowe's help, and this is forcibly underlined by her gangster boyfriend.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Paul Bogart
- 1969-10-31
Jul 17, 2014 · After two leads turn up with ice picks stuck in them, he discovers blackmail photos concerning TV star Mavis Wald. She rejects Marlowe's help, and this is forcibly underlined by her gangster...
- 2 min
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Marlowe. Crime. 95 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1969. Roger Ebert. November 25, 1969. 3 min read. One of the charms of Raymond Chandler’s detective novels is that you can’t figure out exactly what’s going on in them.
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by Orfamay Quest to find her missing brother Orrin. He visits a sleazy hotel and questions the owner and Grant Hicks, the current occupant of Orrin's room. Neither can provide any information, and the two men are soon found murdered with an icepick.
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars and self-preserving gangsters.
When Marlowe finds photographic prints of popular sit-com actress Mavis Wald (Gayle Hunnicut) and realizes she is the older sister of Orfamay Quest and the missing brother, many pieces to the puzzle start to fall into place.
