Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has selected Apr. 18 as the street date for both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of director Neil Jordan’s latest take on the iconic Raymond Chandler detective, Phillip Marlowe, made legend by a series of pulp fiction novels in the 1930s.
And all the more so by equally legendary films — Murder, My Sweet (1944, with Dick Powell as Marlowe), The Big Sleep (1946, Bogart), Lady in the Lake (1947, Robert Montgomery), The Brasher Doubloon (same year, 1947, with George Montgomery as Marlowe), Marlowe (1969, James Garner), Robert Altman’s 1973 take on Marlowe with The Long Goodbye (Elliott Gould) and back-to-back Robert Mitchum Marlowe film productions, Farewell, My Lovely (1975) and The Big Sleep (1978).
The latest, simply title Marlowe, stars Liam Neeson as detective Phillip Marlowe. In a return to Los Angeles of 1939 (the scene of the crime, so to speak), a complicated mystery is at hand … a dead body, wrongfully identified, leaves the “dead man” free to get into other “mischief.” But why? Marlowe is on the case … dames, guns and murder most foul!
The ARR is a lightning-quick-to-market 60 days and box office receipts were a disappointing $4 million.
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