Marlowe

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a young woman from Kansas to track down her missing brother. What looks like a straightforward missing-person case soon pulls him into a darker side of Los Angeles, where his search crosses paths with blackmail, organized crime and a string of killings. As the case widens, Marlowe finds his own safety tied to it.

The film is based on Raymond Chandler's novel The Little Sister, and Chandler shares the screenplay credit with Stirling Silliphant. It was directed by Paul Bogart and released in 1969. James Garner plays Marlowe, with Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell and William Daniels among the main cast. It was the first of three features Bogart directed, followed by Skin Game and later Fun and Games. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Cherokee Productions and Katzka-Berne Productions, it runs 96 minutes.

On IMDb it holds a 6.4 rating from around 4,300 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.1 from a much smaller base of about 95 votes. A critics' rating of 7 out of 10 from seven reviews places it somewhat above the audience scores, indicating a moderate but not enthusiastic reception on both sides.