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 still apparently capable of disabling five assailants at once with the right small arms and some smashable furniture in Marlowe, Neil Jordan’s frisky film noir pastiche.
He’s in tough company. He also has a tough crowd – film noir purists, who are legion – to please.The year is 1939; the setting is old Hollywood, though the film actually shot as an Irish-Spanish co-production in Barcelona.
Marlowe is commissioned by Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), a dame who could cut diamonds with her teeth, to find her missing lover.
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