Raymond Chandler's hard boiled novel is brought to the screen with sleuth Phillip Marlowe finding himself involved with murder blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.
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Another case for American private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum, reprising the role from 'Farewell My Lovely'). While in London Marlowe is called upon by General Sternwood (James Stewart), who is being blackmailed over his daughter Camilla's (Candy Clark) gambling debts. The mystery deepens when the gun-running husband of Sternwood's other daughter, Charlotte (Sarah Miles), goes missing, and Marlowe finds himself surrounded by the usual web of intrigue and murder.
Director Winner switched the setting of Chandler's classic Marlowe mystery from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London, perhaps to avoid comparison with its forerunner. The 1946 Bogart/Bacall masterpiece is a tough act to follow, but this version is interesting in its own right for Mitchum's take on the fabled private eye.
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