Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
- infidelity
- suicide
- corruption
- police
- cat
- detective
- greed
- mission of murder
- penthouse apartment
- police operation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Elliott Gould
Philip Marlowe
Nina van Pallandt
Eileen Wade
Sterling Hayden
Roger Wade
Mark Rydell
Marty Augustine
- Henry Gibson — Dr. Verringer
- David Arkin — Harry
- Jim Bouton — Terry Lennox
- Warren Berlinger — Morgan
- Jo Ann Brody — Jo Ann Eggenweiler
- Stephen Coit — Detective Farmer
- Jack Knight — Mabel
- Pepe Callahan — Pepe
- Vincent Palmieri — Vince
- Pancho Córdova — Doctor
- Enrique Lucero — Jeffe
- Directed
- Robert Altman
- Written
- Leigh Brackett
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 801 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Lion's Gate Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
