T he character of Philip Marlowe first appeared in 1933 in Black Mask magazine, the same publication that hosted other icons of the genre, most notably Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade. Marlowe made ...

Actor Liam Neeson is set to portray the iconic character Philip Marlowe in the upcoming film, Marlowe. But he is hardly the first. Neeson has become known in recent decades for his leading roles ...

Ide, the author of the neo-noir series “IQ,” was being asked to write an original novel using Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe. But unlike Chandler’s Marlowe, who for many ...

Take this corker from “The Big Sleep,” where Philip Marlowe surveys his new client, the ancient General Sternwood: “The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out ...

The last time we saw Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe onscreen, the perpetually broke and lonely private eye had married an heiress and moved to a swanky suburb. HBO’s 1998 “Poodle Springs ...

“Marlowe” is an adaptation of the 2014 book “The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel” by Irish novelist and Booker Award winner John Banville (“Doctor Copernicus”), writing as ...

Marlowe tells the story of Neeson’s hardboiled fictional detective Philip Marlowe. A glamorous heiress, played by Diane Kruger, hires him to find her ex-boyfriend after he mysteriously goes missing.

The richly hard-boiled terrain of detective Philip Marlowe has always been, to quote Raymond Chandler, “a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” Chandler’s Los Angeles gumshoe has ...

While Humphrey Bogart has starred in some iconic movies, this underseen World War II story was truly one of the best ...

Remembering writer Raymond Chandler at the 65 th anniversary of his death, a CU Boulder English scholar reflects on the hard-boiled investigator and why this character still appeals Philip Marlowe was ...

World-weary gumshoe Philip Marlowe has been played most famously by Humphrey Bogart but also by James Garner, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum and sundry others. Enter Liam Neeson, 70 this year but ...

On what would have been her 100th birthday, we remember model-turned-actress Martha Vickers and her scene-stealing performance – playing younger sister to Lauren Bacall – as the flirtatious Carmen ...