Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10818 in VHS
• Released on: 1994-06-22
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

marlowe
if you liked james garner in the "rockford files" you will dig this,a typical gumshoe movie of the era, but a cut above the "our man flint,and "matt helm" movies.james garner plays phillip marlowe,a detective who doesnt like to start trouble, but always seems to solicit it. he runs into the path of a gangster who has a henchman,who's not a-typical....you guessed it!Bruce lee. the scene where bruce visits marlowe's office,is what the movie "Bullit " was to car chases,and what every rock star tried to do to a hotel room.a must see for Lee fans!

2.5, maybe...
Raymond Chandler's wisecracking, star-crossed private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into the swinging '60s where hopheads, strippers and psychiatrists join the usual compliment of thugs and goons that make his life miserable. James Garner gets a nice dry run for the "Rockford Files" TV show, while Rita Moreno bares all in her climactic stripping scene. Honestly, the script is not that great -- for the life of me I couldn't actually figure out who did what, or why... But it's still a fun film, in a campy kinda way. The film's one truly great moment is a scene is with Caroll O'Connor as a police detective who, having wearied of playing Marlowe's schnook, bursts into a violent tirade about how lousy his job is, and nearly beats the handcuffed private eye to death. It's a scene that could stand tasteful recycling elsewhere and, I suspect, was only in the film because O'Connor improv-ed it and made *something* good happen in this otherwise somewhat addled production...

play it again Marlowe
This is a very entertaining 60's detective romp. It isn't too dated for the most part. It is interesting to see a few of Rockford's traits in Marlowe, the Oreo cookies, the charm, and the slightly illegal activities.
He is attacked by Bruce Lee's character and finesses his way out.
He ends up further behind than he started like Rockford.

I enjoyed this movie and found it unpredictable, funny and a precursor to Rockford.