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Release year: 1969

Storyline

A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.

Top credits

Directors

Paul Bogart

Writers

Cast

James Garner — Philip Marlowe
Gayle Hunnicutt — Mavis Wald
Carroll O'Connor — Lt. Christy French
Rita Moreno — Dolores Gonzáles

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Did you know

• This is one of only two films which Bruce Lee acted in where he spoke with his own voice (the other being Enter the Dragon (1973)). This is also the only film in which Lee played a villain.

• The phone number seen in the opening scene in the hotel, 555-2368, is the same number seen on Jim Rockford's phone in the opening credits off The Rockford Files (1974).

• In the nightclub, Marlowe (James Garner) takes a sip of wine and, smirking, judges it to be "impertinent... even baroque." These were the exact words which a character in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (published a year earlier) had used to describe Garner's butt in an excerpt from an obtuse film journal which appeared in the novel. Obviously, this was an inside joke and from Garner's smarmy delivery of what was otherwise a pointless remark, he was very much in on the gag.