Marlowe (1969)

95 min · Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Paul Bogard

Cast

Jackie Coogan, James Garner, Christopher Cary, William Daniels, Bruce Lee, Gayle Hunniou, Rosita Moreno, Kenneth Tobey, Carroll O'Connor, Sharon Farrell, H.M. Wynant

The story

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe has been hired by Orfamay Quest, a young woman from Kansas, to find her brother, Orrin. Marlowe searches Orrin's former hotel room and interviews the shady hotel guest, Grant Hicks, he finds there. Returning downstairs he comes across the dead body of desk clerk, Haven Clausen, killed with an ice pick.

Catalogue themes and tags

Blackmail, Detective, Planned Murder, Victim of Murder, Mystery, Detective fiction

Genres

Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir

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