July
Philip Marlowe
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have b
ad habits in.” –Philip Marlowe
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.” –Philip Marlowe
The original hard-boiled private eye, author Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe was a hard-drinking, wisecracking but morally upright straight-shooter. In such novels as The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye, Marlowe always used his wits first to gain the upper hand in a tricky situation, though he admitted that, “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.” Humphrey Bogart, James Garner, Elliot Gould and Robert Mitchum all played the classic film noir detective, with world-weary eyes that had seen it all and a smoldering Camel dangling from their lips.
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