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- Although The Black Marble was not a commercial hit, it won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for film given by the association Mystery Writers of America.
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Although The Black Marble was not a commercial hit, it won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for film given by the association Mystery Writers of America. The Black Marble holds a 36% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on six reviews.
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Jul 24, 2024 · On paper, the film had some commercial potential – less of a downer than The Onion Field, at least – but Wambaugh’s commercial success as a novelist had depended largely on his empathetic inside look at the cop life, not his wilfully bizarre comedy stylings.
- Ray Banks
“The Black Marble” centers around several days in the life of a Los Angeles police sergeant named Valnikov (Robert Foxworth), an incurably romantic Russian who has been drinking too much since his partner’s suicide.
The Black Marble: Directed by Harold Becker. With Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Babcock. A show dog trainer in desperate need of money kidnaps a prized show dog and demands a ransom.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Harold Becker
Jun 30, 2021 · Dark Comedy, as the Marble Rolls…. DIRECTED BY HAROLD BECKER/1980. BLU-RAY STREET DATE: JULY 6, 2021/KL STUDIO CLASSICS. By 1980, America was down on its luck. It was an era defined by gas shortages, the Iran hostage crisis, and, as President Jimmy Carter put it, a broader “crisis of confidence”.
Jul 30, 2020 · The Black Marble is a 1980 mystery/romantic comedy film directed by Harold Becker and starring Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss and Harry Dean Stanton. It is based on the 1978 novel by Joseph Wambaugh.
Aug 27, 2021 · After the critical and commercial failure of The Choirboys in 1977, author Joseph Wambaugh took an active role in the next two adaptations of his books. While The Onion Field garnered a lot of well-deserved attention in 1979, The Black Marble slipped through the cracks the following year.
