Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.
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- 2 wins & 13 nominations
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- TriviaBefore he died, Raymond Chandler informed his agent Helga Greene never to allow the character of Philip Marlowe to appear in a TV show. Helga Greene later allowed this show to be made after discussions with producer David Wickes.
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Philip Marlowe: Hollywood's the kind of town where they stick a knife in your back and then have you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Goodnight Sweetheart: In the Mood (1993)
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This is Marlowe
Philip Carey, James Garner, Bogart and probably more have essayed the role of Raymond Chandler's iconic private investigator but only two have worn the role like a double breasted suit with a .38 in the armpit: Gerald Mohr on radio and Powers Booth in this HBO masterpiece. Cleaving close to the Chandler stories and with exquisite period touches in set design, automobiles and even 1930s fixtures,lamps and streetlights, furniture and wallpaper this is a treat. Perfect? No. Compulsive nitpickers might find the occasional small flaw but seldom has any series been so carefully set in time. So fine writing and great sets but most of all Powers Booth. Oozing "Weltschmertz" Booth never steps across the line to parody or overacting. Like Mohr on radio, Powers Booth is Philip Marlowe. There may never be a better.
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By what name was Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983) officially released in India in English?
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