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Philip Marlowe (/ ˈ m ɑːr l oʊ / MAR-loh) is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre. The genre originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared.
One of Mohr's early starring roles on radio was as a replacement for Matt Crowley for a brief interval in Jungle Jim in 1938. [2]: 185 He starred as Raymond Chandler's hardboiled detective, Philip Marlowe, [2]: 13–14 1948–1951, in 119 half-hour radio plays.
The Long Good-bye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. [1]
Liam Neeson celebrated his 100th film “Marlowe” during a special screening Wednesday night at New York City’s Crosby Street Hotel. “How did I get so lucky? Do you ever get moments like that?
Articles relating to the fictional private detective Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler, and his depictions. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is an American mystery series that aired on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983, through June 3, 1986, and on ITV in the United Kingdom. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler 's title character , and was the first drama produced for HBO. [ 2 ]
But unlike Chandler’s Marlowe, who for many defined the hard-boiled mystery genre in classics including 1939’s “The Big Sleep” and 1953’s “The Long Goodbye,” Ide’s Marlowe was to ...
Farewell, My Lovely was the first Philip Marlowe novel to be filmed. In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, a 65-minute film that was the third in the Falcon series about Michael Arlen's gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence (played by George Sanders), used the plot of Farewell, My Lovely.