Movie
1969
Marlowe is a 1969 American neo-noir film 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. The supporting cast includes Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, and William Daniels.
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Certain films achieve notoriety for reasons that defy conventional acclaim. Such is the case with *Marlowe* (1969), a middling crime caper directed by Paul Bogart, which has secured its footnote in cinematic history not through artistic merit, but via an incidental detail its creators likely dismissed as trivial: the presence of Bruce Lee in a minor, racially caricatured role. This otherwise forgettable entry in the…More
