Marlowe is a movie directed by Neil Jordan in 2022 and based on the characters from the book series Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler, which first book was published in 1939. The movie features Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Colm Meaney, Ian Hart, and others.
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Storyline
Marlowe is charged with locating a gorgeous heiresses’ missing ex-lover in noir-LA of the late 1930s. He soon learns that a labyrinth of corruption lies beneath the missing man’s disappearance, placing him in the sights of some of the city’s wealthiest and most dangerous residents.
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Movie vs Book
Year
2022
Minutes
110
Movie Rate
5.90
Source: IMDb
Year
1939
Pages
231
Book Rate
7.96
S: Goodreads
Book
The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Country: USA
First published in: 1939
Length: 231 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Philip Marlowe
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Howard Hawks
TV Series by Raymond Chandler
Movie by Michael Winner
TV Series by Peter Hunt, Robert Iscove
Movie by Joel Coen
Movie by Václav Marhoul
Movie by Rob Bowman
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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“I’m always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.”
SEAN PENN (Actor, Filmmaker)
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