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Philip Marlowe perfume, anyone? Raymond Chandler’s estate revives its hero, for better or worse (Paul Rogers / For The Times) By Nate Rogers. Feb. 15, 2024 11:32 AM PT .
The richly hard-boiled terrain of detective Philip Marlowe has always been, to quote Raymond Chandler, “a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” Chandler’s Los Angeles gumshoe has ...
Before there were Philip Marlowe movies, there were (a lot) of Philip Marlowe books. A character born of the pulp fiction detective stories in the ’20s, LA-based detective, Marlowe first appears ...
Liam Neeson in "Marlowe." (Courtesy Briarcliff Entertainment) The last time we saw Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe onscreen, the perpetually broke and lonely private eye had married an heiress ...
Private detective Philip Marlowe is less a person than the physical residue left after something is hard boiled. As author Raymond Chandler said of his most famous creation’s origin, “Marlowe ...
Neeson’s Philip Marlowe is an Irish expat (we learn he saw combat in the First World War, with the Royal Irish Rifles regiment of the British Army), former LAPD cop and now private detective who ...
The richly hard-boiled terrain of detective Philip Marlowe has always been, to quote Raymond Chandler, “a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” Chandler’s Los Angeles gumshoe has ...
“Marlowe” is an adaptation of the 2014 book “The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel” by Irish novelist and Booker Award winner John Banville (“Doctor Copernicus”), writing as ...
The character of hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe has been portrayed many times over the years after writer Raymond Chandler created him in the 1930s, including by actors like Humphrey Bogart ...
“In Philip Marlowe, Chandler gives us guy who’s educated, who’s been to college, who quotes Shakespeare, but works with lowlifes,” Klages explains. “He gives us a portrait of a very dirty underworld ...
The richly hard-boiled terrain of detective Philip Marlowe has always been, to quote Raymond Chandler, “a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” ...