Philip Marlowe

On the data. Ten films, one television series, and no continuity at all. This is an anthology, not a series. Every film adapts one novel, was made by a different studio in a different decade, and has a different actor. Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, George Montgomery, James Garner, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum twice, James Caan and Liam Neeson have all played him on film, plus Philip Carey and Powers Boothe on television. Nothing carries over and the films are set anywhere from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some novels have been filmed more than once. Farewell, My Lovely three times, The High Window twice, The Big Sleep twice. Playback has never been filmed at all. Two films are usually left off lists like this, and we leave them off too. The Falcon Takes Over and Time to Kill, both 1942, take Chandler plots and give them to other studios' detective characters. Marlowe is not in either. Watch for the titles. Murder, My Sweet went out in Britain as Farewell, My Lovely, which is also the name of the 1975 film. Three separate things are called Marlowe: a 1969 film, an unsold 2007 pilot and the 2022 film. Chandler finished seven Marlowe novels and left four chapters of an eighth, which Robert B. Parker completed in 1989. Five more have been written since by other authors with the estate's blessing, including the one the 2022 film comes from. A 1959 ABC series ran twenty six episodes with Philip Carey and is very hard to find, so it is not listed here. A 2007 pilot was made for ABC and never aired.

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