Marlowe (DVD)

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 missing persons, blackmail and ice-pick murders. Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, William Daniels, Sharon Farrell and Jackie Coogan are among the cast of characters living in a sprawling '60s L.A. so hard-boiled somebody's got to crack. And when that happens, it's Marlowe's job to put the pieces together.

Starring: William Daniels, James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, H. M. Wynant, Christopher Cary, George Tyne, Corinne Camacho, Paul Stevens, Roger Newman, Read Morgan, H.M. Wynant, Jackie Coogan, Kenneth Tobey, Bruce Lee, Warren Finnerty, Nate Esformes, Pauline Gest, Tracy Bogart

Director: Gabriel Katzka, Sidney Beckerman