Bogart is derfinitely the better Marlow. Why would they remake an already great film?
"AND THATS THAT"-Sam Rothstein
Not really a remake - more of a readaptation. And this certainly is a closer adaptation than the Bogart version. Still, I'd take Hawks over this any day.
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Jack Gould was the best Marlowe IMO, Bogie was second best but Mitchum was great in Farewell, My Lovely, far better than Powell (the first Marlowe). Haven't seen this one yet. I'm planning on checking out Marlow (1969) and the one with Robert Montgomery soon.
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I say Powers Booth was the best Marlowe. The series doesn't hold up, but his performance does.
sharewho is Jack Gould and what did he play Marlowe in? I'd like to check it out.
shareI presume he means Elliot Gould's Phillip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, 1973
Gotta be bogie for me, he plays the suave, debonair, detective without trying, oozes style with every witty line of dialogue, light of his smoke and his contrasting Hollywood looks.
Do like Goulds performance in the Long goodbye too, Altman has reworked it so much that hes almost incomprehensible as the Marlowe were familiar with, but we soon see the paralells and appreciate Altmans end result.
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This is my favorite Philip Marlowe movie.
That said, in the last couple months, I've come to think the BEST Marlowe EVER may well have been GERALD MOHR.
He played Marlowe on the radio! My GOD, what a voice!!! It's criminal he didn't do the 50s's TV series, or any of the films back then.
I like Dick Powell's Marlowe.
shareI like Bogart better as Sam Spade, but really like Mitchum as Marlowe. I wish they would have put the story of The Big Sleep in the right period. Whenever I watch Robert M. in the film- Out of the Past (my favorite Noir film), I always think- He should have played Marlowe then. But he really wasn't as big a star as say, Humphrey Bogart.
shareAltman and Gould created a great neo-noir although it strays drastically from Chandler's novel. Two thoughts prior to watching this one again, Gould is playing "Rip Van Marlowe" and never forget it is a Seventies movie.
shareOne of the memes of the novel that is able to be more obvious in the remake is that of homosexuality. When Bogie enters Geiger's bookstore he is supposedly acting as if he is gay. It is the most atrocious scene in the original. The remake wisely leaves out directing Mitchum to act gay.
shareBogart is derfinitely the better Marlow. Why would they remake an already great film?
The problem is not Mitchum,who did a good Philip Marlow in "Farewell My Lovely",but with two idiotic decisions which ruined the film:
A.Updating it to the 1970's
B.Moving the story to London.
Those doomed the film and are insults to Raymond Chandler.
And so IS Mitchum
shareBogart is the best Marlowe, but Mitchum would have been good in the role, too, if he'd had a chance to do it in a good movie. Unfortunately, this movie sucks.
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