I love this movie so much

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Though James Garner does a good job as Raymond Chandler's immortal private eye, Marlowe (1969) is just a passable mystery thriller. The pacing is a big sluggish and aside from Bruce Lee smashing up Garner's office, nothing about the movie sticks out in the mind. When it comes to post-classic Hollywood takes on Chandler, you're better off with The Long Goodbye or Farewell My Lovely, both from the 1970s.Marlowe is best as a time capsule of the late 1960s. The jazzy soundtrack, mod and hippie fashions, and the locales all reek of the period, and that was where most of this viewer's pleasure was found. If that's enough for you, then catch it on TCM whenever they play the thing.

***SPOILERS*** James Garner plays it cool and nonchalant as private dick Philip Marlowe in trying to find "little Sister"-The original title of the movie-Orfamay Quest's, Sharon Farrell, brother Orrin, Roger Newman,who reportedly left home in Kansas looking for fame & fortune as a blackmailer of the stars in tinsel town Hollywood. Given a $50.00 retainer by Orfamy to track down Orrin Marlow goes to this hippie and homeless hotel to check out if he's, Orin's last reported residence, living there. Things go south from there on with Marlowe knocked out from behind and the hotel manager Grant W. Hicks, Jackie Coogan, the only person who can identify the person who clubbed him later found murdered with an ice-pick stuck in his neck! It turns out that the person who clubbed Marlowe from behind was TV sitcom star and part time fashion model Marvis Wald, Gayle Hunnicutt, whom Orrin had photographed making it by the swimming pool with Tony Stompanato like hood Sonny Steelgrave, H.M Wynant, who as it was soon found out by Marlowe was working together with Hicks in an effort to blackmail Wald. From that point on everything in the movie goes completely downhill and fast with a confused and looking out of it Philip Marlowe getting involved in a number of fresh murders. The killings have something to do with a mysterious Brooklyn based ice-pick killer as well as strip tease artist Dolores Gonzales, Rita Merino, and what turned out to be her lover child psychiatrist quack and doctor Dr. Vincent Lagardie, Paul Stevens. Marlow also has a spat with hit-man and martial arts expert Winslow Wong, Bruce Lee, who came to his office and wrecked it just to intimidate the startled Marlowe who couldn't quite figure out just what Wong wanted from him in having trouble understanding his very pronounced lisps! It's after that bizarre incident that the pumped up Wong overreached himself in trying to droop kick Marlowe as he ended up falling to his death by not realizing-While doing his thing-that he was on the ledge of a 50 story building!****SPOILERS**** The end if you can call it that has a sleepy and not all that with it Marlowe finally getting to the bottom of both his whiskey bottle as well as this slew of murders, mostly off camera, at a strip joint that Dolores, who's so overly made up that for a moment you have trouble recognizing her, doing her act on stage. By then all the loose ends in the movie are now all tied together to who's-As if you really care- behind all these, including that of Orrin's, strange murders and have the movie finally wrapped up-Thank the Lord-and with in both Dolores & Dr. Quack or Legardie's case a bang. Also notable mention is actors Carroll O'Connor and Kenneth Tobey as bumbling L.A detectives and Marlowe's nemeses in the film Let. French & Sgt. Belfus who are anything but helpful in solving the murders but funny as hell, like the Keystone Kops, to watch.

"Take this back to your leader. Tell him you've met the last of the dying dynasty: the king of the fools, unassailably virtuous, invariably broke." - Marlowe "Marlowe" is an interesting neo-noir by director Paul Bogart. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, "The Little Sister", the film transports Chandler's iconic gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, to 1960s Los Angeles.All the usual Chandleresque features are here – a noble, wisecracking detective, a convoluted murder mystery, startling revelations, double-crosses, attractive women who throw themselves at Marlowe etc etc – but there are a few new additions sprinkled about. Marlowe, for example, is given a stable love interest and so brushes aside all who attempt to seduce him. He's also always fashionably broke, privileging his righteous crusades above sex or money. Trinkets specific to the 1960s then pop up: Marlowe's on friendly terms with a gay neighbour, weed smoking hippies are on display and Marlowe has a brief and wholly ridiculous fight with martial artist Bruce Lee.The film lacks the atmosphere and psychic weight of the great noirs, but its script is nevertheless richer and better written than most detective dramas of the era. It also cleverly juggles two eventually intersecting plots. This incarnation of Marlowe is played by James Garner.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing. See Jacques Tourneur's "Nightfall".

Orfamay Quest wants private detective Philip Marlowe to locate her brother.While working on the case he has to face an ice pick killer.Marlowe (1969) is a neo-noir based on the 1949 novel The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler.It's directed by Paul Bogart, who is a distant relative of Humphrey Bogart.He made the character of Philip Marlowe immortal.James Garner's Marlowe is pretty far from Humphrey's Marlowe, but he does a good job.Gayle Hunnicutt plays Mavis Wald.Carroll O'Connor is Lt. Christy French.Rita Moreno portrays stripper Dolores Gonzáles.Sharon Farrell is Orfamay.William Daniels plays the part of Mr. Crowell.H.M. Wynant is Sonny Steelgrave.Former child star Jackie Coogan plays Grant W. Hicks.Then we also see Bruce Lee showing his martial arts skills as Winslow Wong.This Marlowe mystery is pretty mediocre as a movie.It's not James Garner to blame, the story just never catches fire.