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Harper
Why this pick
Paul Newman brings the same wisecracking, repeatedly battered private-eye energy, following a supposedly simple California job into a tangled web of wealthy, evasive suspects.
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MOVIE1969 1h 35m USA
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Why this pick
Another Philip Marlowe investigation, filtered through a hazy, cynical 1970s Los Angeles; its relaxed surface and sharp dialogue make the detective’s persistence especially compelling.
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The Late Show
Why this pick
A melancholy, character-rich private-eye mystery that pairs fading old-school detective habits with offbeat Los Angeles characters and understated, wry humor.
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Robert Mitchum’s Marlowe offers the same hard-boiled voice, nocturnal urban corruption, and steadily deepening case, with a more deliberately classic noir look.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by a Kansas woman named Orfamay Quest, who desperately wants him to find her brother Orrin. As Marlowe follows Orrin's trail to a hotel, he meets the manager, Hayden Glossen, and a guest named Grant W. Hicks, who deny any knowledge of Orrin's whereabouts. After Marlowe has investigated Orrin's former hotel room, he finds Glossen murdered with an ice pick and a page missing from the register book. Soon afterwards, Marlowe receives a call from Hicks, who nervously implores him to hold onto something for a day. When Marlowe arrives at his location, he finds Hicks with an ice pick buried in his neck, and a masked woman who manages to escape; Hicks is also revealed to be a former mob runner. After these events, Marlowe begins to suspect that there is more to this case than a mere missing person.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rita Moreno
Dolores Gonzáles
Bruce Lee
Winslow Wong
Kenneth Tobey
Fred Beifus
Mary Wilcox
YMCA Clerk
George Tyne
Oliver Hady
Corinne Camacho
Julie
Paul Stevens
Dr. Vincent Lagardie
Roger Newman
Orrin Quest