Marlowe (film)
Marlowe (1969) is a neo-noir movie starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, and directed by Paul Bogart. The mystery film was written by Stirling Silliphant based on Chandler's 1949 novel The Little Sister. The supporting cast includes Bruce Lee, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor and Jackie Coogan.
The film foreshadowed James Garner's second Los Angeles P.I. character Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files. Many of the wisecracking Marlowe lines incorporated by Silliphant for this movie were taken directly from Chandler's novel.
Stirling Silliphant is best known for his Academy-award winning screenplay for In the Heat of the Night (1967) and creating the television series Route 66 and Naked City. The movie also introduced martial arts legend Bruce Lee to many American film viewers.
The film's title song Little Sister (named after the novel from which the film is derived) is provided by the group Orpheus.
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