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Aug 8, 1975 · 1 Video. 42 Photos. Crime Mystery Thriller. Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer. Director. Dick Richards. Writers. David Zelag Goodman. Raymond Chandler. Stars. Robert Mitchum. Charlotte Rampling. John Ireland. See production info at IMDbPro.
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The Big Sleep is a 1978 neo-noir film, the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The picture was directed by Michael Winner and stars Robert Mitchum in his second film portrayal of the detective Philip Marlowe (following Farewell, My Lovely three years earlier).
Apr 7, 1978 · Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster. Director. Michael Winner. Writers. Michael Winner. Raymond Chandler. Stars. Robert Mitchum. Sarah Miles. Richard Boone.
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- Poodle Springs (1998) - 6.1. Poodle Springs was the last novel that Chandler worked on before his death in 1959. Though the book went unfinished for decades, it was eventually published and then adapted into a film.
- Marlowe (1969) - 6.4. Marlowe attempted to show that the works of Raymond Chandler still had value a decade after the author's death. The film modernizes the Marlowe character and puts him in contemporary time with a story ripped straight from the pages of Chandler's novel The Little Sister.
- The Brasher Doubloon (1947) - 6.5. The Brasher Doubloon once again found another actor playing Phillip Marlowe. Despite the inconsistency with casting, the film is a faithful adaptation of Chandler's The High Window and sees Marlowe tailing a rich girl after she steals a part of her family's fortune.
- The Falcon Takes Over (1942) - 6.5. Not all Raymond Chandler adaptions revolve around Marlowe, and The Falcon Takes Over was an entry in a long line of novels surrounding the Falcon character.
Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe. The picture is based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944.
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Farewell, My Lovely - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Plot. Characters. Background. Film adaptations. Radio adaptations. Cultural references. References. External links. Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.
The Big Sleep. Roger Ebert March 24, 1978. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. When they were writing the original 1946 movie version of "The Big Sleep" (1946), they came up with this little problem in Raymond Chandler ’s novel: It seemed to have an extra dead body left over at the end.
