Marlowe - DVD

After two generations, Raymond Chandler's dogged Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe returns to the big screen in the person of Liam Neeson in this atmospheric entry from Neil Jordan. Engaged by a gorgeous heiress (Diane Kruger) to look into the vanishing of her no-good lover, Marlowe might find the maximum peril from his own client and her fading movie star mother (Jessica Lange). Adaptation of John Ballantine's InchThe Black-Eyed BlondeInch co-stars Danny Huston, Alan Cumming, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. 109 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

James Garner is Raymond Chandler's heralded detective in this intriguing mystery based on his novel InchThe Little Sister.Inch Philip Marlowe's search for a woman's missing brother in Los Angeles leads him into a murder plot complicated by tough police officials, strippers, and martial arts henchmen. Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, and Bruce Lee (in his Hollywood film debut) also star. 96 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English Dolby Digital mono; featurette; image gallery; theatrical trailer.

Five-hundred bucks doesn't come easily for private eye Philip Marlowe (James Garner). But when it comes by way of a bribe, it might as well be five cents. He rejects Winslow Wong (Bruce Lee) and his offer of cash...and Wong promptly karates the detective's office into a junkpile. In a colorful whodunit based on Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, Garner's easygoing style contrasts agreeably with the grim task of sleuthing a case of mi