Not to get too far off-topic (from TV), but this is something that generally comes up in my world when a Marlowe movie airs on TCM. For me (and many), Dick Powell is far and away the best Marlowe, Bogart is too much of a tough guy for my tastes (you couldn't slip a sheet of paper between his Marlowe and his Spade). Garner should have been perfect, but the movie was terrible. Robert Montgomery is okay (though the first-person camera in "Lady in the Lake" is too distracting), and George Montgomery is a disaster in "The Brasher Doubloon." Mitchum is very good (he's second to Powell for me), but is just a tad too tired and dissipated. I never saw the Powers Boothe series, so I can't judge that. The least said about Altman's travesty, the better.
Personally, I'm -very- much over Brits, Aussies, and the Irish playing 'muricans with their crappy accents, but casting people will always go weak-kneed for actors with "training" (because, obviously, there are no actor training programs in the United States). I generally like Neeson, but don't expect much from him in this one. --Dave Sikula On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 3:56:33 PM UTC-8 PGage wrote: Bogie will always be my favorite, but there are other good Marlowe’s out there (Robert Mitchum and James Garner). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/22c8b76e-32c1-4f1f-bd6e-082d83dee527n%40googlegroups.com.
