Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler : OTR Crime Drama

Raymond Chandler

(4.6 stars; 11 reviews)

Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler Published in the 1930s, Raymond Chandler's pulp magazine tales of world weary private eye Philip Marlowe were a favourite subject for radio adaptations. Six BBC radio dramas, starring Ed Bishop as Marlowe :    1:  The Big Sleep    2:  The High Window    3:  The Lady in the Lake    4:  The Little Sister    5:  The Long Goodbye    6:  Farewell My Lovely Directed in the 1970s by John Tydeman . Dramatised by Bill Morrison . 1:  The Big Sleep (26.09.1977) .   General Sternwood's daughters came in both colours of trouble -- blonde and brunette -- and had all the usual vices. With four million dollars behind them, blackmail was only a matter of time. And blackmail can be murder. Cast : Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe, Rod Beacham, Robert Beatty, Blain Fairman, Don Fellows, Weston Gavin, Malcolm Gerard, Walter Hall, Henry Knowles, Peter Marinker, Paul Maxwell, Nicolette McKenzie, Diana Olsson, Liza Ross, Irene Sutcliffe, Harry Towb. 2:  The High Window (17.10.1977).  Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable, and very missing... along with one very valuable old coin. But for some reason the interested parties didn't seem too interested in finding either of them. Especially when the trail led to the underworld and beyond. And by then Marlowe was knee deep in dead men. Cast : Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe, Rod Beacham, Elizabeth Bell, Gavin Campbell, Blain Fairman, Don Fellows, Malcolm Gerard, David Healey, Peter Marinker, Paul Maxwell, Nicolette McKenzie, Paul Meier, Bill Morrison, Toby Robbins, Margaret Robertson, Ramsay Williams. 3:  The Lady in the Lake (7.11.1977).  Blonde, beautiful and wild, Crystal Kingsley had never exactly been the faithful little wife. But when she's missing for a month and a woman's body surfaces in an isolated mountain lake, murder-a-day Marlowe is back in business. Cast : Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe, Bruce Beeby, Don Fellows, Michael Harbour, Peter Marinker, Paul Maxwell, Tucker McGuire, Nicolette McKenzie, Paul Meier, Toby Robbins, William Roberts, Margaret Robertson, Kenneth Shanley, Harry Towb, Ramsay Williams. 4:  The Little Sister (5.12.1977).  The case of a missing brother from some two-bit Kansas town didn't look that unusual. But this particular brother had the embarrassing habit of knowing guys who finished up on the wrong end of an ice-pick. Until, that is, he did too... Cast : Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe, Rod Beacham, Blain Fairman, Don Fellows, Malcolm Gerard, Michael Goldie, Neville Jason, Peter Marinker, Paul Maxwell, Bill Morrison, Toby Robbins, William Roberts, Margaret Robertson, Liza Ross, Ramsay Williams. 5:  The Long Goodbye (16.1.1978).  Terry Lennox seemed like a nice guy. Okay, he was a drunk; but maybe that could happen to anyone with too much money, too much time, and a wife who played the field in a big way. Trouble was, when she ended up dead, it wasn't money that got Lennox to Mexico. It was Marlowe. Cast : Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe, Rod Beacham, Anthony Daniels, Blain Fairman, Don Fellows, Malcolm Gerard, Brian Hewlett, Henry Knowles, Neville Jason, David March, Peter Marinker, Paul Maxwell, Bill Morrison, Toby Robbins, William Roberts, Margaret Robertson, Gordon Sterne, Bob Sherman, Harry Towb, Ramsay Williams. 6:  Farewell My Lovely (23.9.1988).  At six foot five, Moose Malloy was as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a dinner plate, and about as dangerous. But Marlowe never was the kind of guy to walk away from trouble when it slapped him in the face, and Moose's girl had disappeared -- a mere eight years ago. All Marlowe had to do was find her... Cast : Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe, John Baddeley, Elizabeth Bell, Zelah Clarke, Peter Craze, Alan Dudley, Blain Fairman, Don Fellows, Susannah Fellows, Helen Horton, Anthony Jackson, Clive Mantle, Diana Olsson, Doyle Richmond, William Simons, Paul Sirr, Harry Towb. Good Quality iTunes Audio , .m4a

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