Marlowe - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Marlowe or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Marlowe

[ray]

One of the very few films directed by Paul Bogart, this was the second.

[sophie]

American feature film debut of Bruce Lee.

[richard]

As the film was practically a Cherokee Production - which was James Garner's own company, the film contains many actors, who'd appear with him in other Cherokee Productions, including his series Paul Stevens, who all appeared in multiple episodes of that series. In addition, H.M. Wynant appeared in a single Rockford Files and Hoke Howell appeared in one of the Rockford TV movies.

[addison]

This was the last film broadcast for WABC-TV's (New York) afternoon slot, "The 4:30 Movie", on 26 November 1981.

[victoria]

The movie's title song, "Little Sister" was originally recorded by New York studio musicians but the producers were not happy with the vocal performance (rumored to be songwriter Norman Gimbel himself). They turned to executives at MGM Records who suggested that members from their newly signed star group, Orpheus, re-record the song. The producers agreed and the Orpheus version was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York. Only Orpheus lead singer, Bruce Arnold and backup singer, Jack McKenes were on the track since the music had been pre-recorded. However, future Orpheus member and legendary studio musician, Bernard Pretty Purdie, plays drums on the song's backing track.

[claude]

The phone number seen in the opening scene in the hotel,555-2368 is the same number seen in the opening credits on "The Rockford Files".

[ethel]

The line "Does your mother know what you do for a living?" was used again by Garner in the "Rockford Files: The Kirkoff Case" [See: The Rockford Files: The Kirkoff Case (1974)].

[melinda]

The film was made and released about twenty years after its source novel "The Little Sister" by Raymond Chandler had been first published in 1949. The book was the fifth Phillip Marlowe novel in Chandler's series.

[norma]

Raymond Chandler's novel "The Little Sister" was set in 1940s Los Angeles. The film retains the book's setting but its time period was updated to 1960s L.A.

[wallace]

Bruce Lee was discovered by Jay Sebring, who was brutally murdered by Charles Manson's followers the same year this movie was released.

[nina]

In the nightclub scene, 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, an inside joke and from Garner's smarmy delivery of what was otherwise a pointless remark, he was very much in on the gag.

[sara]

Apparently, actor Bruce Lee wore his own clothes in the film that he had bought on Rodeo Drive and did not use outfits from the studio's costume department.

[javier]

Although the movie was released as "Marlowe" the end credits list the picture's title as "The Little Sister"(the Chandler novel on which the film is based).

[cassandra]

The film's director, Paul Bogart, had the same last name as Humphrey Bogart, who had played Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946).

[ray]

Phillip Marlowe (James Garner)'s fee was $100 a day plus expenses. The $100 would equal $720 in 2019.

[oscar]

The last movie shown on TNT Classic Movies (U.K) on its last day of broadcasting for Europe. (15 October 1999)