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Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), [1] English playwright and poet, [2] has appeared in works of fiction since the nineteenth century. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare , [ 3 ] and has been suggested as an alternative author of Shakespeare's works, an idea not accepted in mainstream scholarship. [ 4 ]
In 2003, AFI named Philip Marlowe the 32nd greatest hero in film. [21] The film placed 202nd on the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made and also received two directors' votes. [22] The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited The Big Sleep as one of his 100 favorite films. [23]
The name Sam Marlowe is taken from two film characters played by Bogart: Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. Appearing in this film are screen veterans George Raft (in his last film role), Jay Robinson , Henry Wilcoxon , Victor Sen Yung (who had appeared with Humphrey Bogart in Across the Pacific ), Victor Buono ...
Steven Waddington in Derek Jarman's 1991 cinematic version of Christopher Marlowe's play - which utilized 20th century clothing and gay rights marches as an aspect of the story. Peter Hanly in Braveheart (1995). The film portrays Edward as weak, effeminate and homosexual with a Piers Gaveston-like lover.
Neeson and director Neil Jordan watched a series of noir films to prepare for “Marlowe,” particularly those adapted from Chandler’s work like 1946’s “The Big Sleep” and 1973’s “The ...
Philip Marlowe (/ ˈ m ɑːr l oʊ / MAR-loh) is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler who was characteristic of the hardboiled crime fiction genre. The genre originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett 's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared.
The movie received a terribly negative review in The New York Times, Renata Adler criticizing the adaptation of the text ("the play has been quite badly cut"), Burton's performance ("he seems happiest shouting in Latin, or in Ms. Taylor's ear"), the score ("some horrible electronic Wagnerian theme music"), and Taylor's role ("in this last role ...
Radioactive Dreams is a 1985 post-apocalyptic science fiction-comedy film written and directed by Albert Pyun and starring George Kennedy, Michael Dudikoff, Don Murray, and Lisa Blount. [2] The names of the two main characters are homages to noir detective fiction icons Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler and Mike Hammer. The film has achieved ...