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Poodle Springs is a american film of genre Noir directed by Bob Rafelson released in USA on 25 july 1998 with James Caan
Poodle Springs (1998)
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Add to a movie listPoodle Springs is a 1998 neo-noir HBO film directed by Bob Rafelson, starring James Caan as private detective Philip Marlowe.
The film is based on the unfinished novel Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler, completed after his death by Robert B. Parker and published in 1989.
Playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay.
Synopsis
In 1963, an aging Philip Marlowe (James Caan) is newly married to young socialite Laura Parker (Dina Meyer). The private investigator leaves his Los Angeles apartment behind and sets up a new base of operations in Poodle Springs, an upscale community in the desert a couple hours from L.A. (a parody of Palm Springs), where he and his wife intend to live.Actors
James Caan
(Philip Marlowe)
Dina Meyer
(Laura)
David Keith
(Larry Victor)
Tom Bower
(Arnie Burns)
Joe Don Baker
(P.J. Parker)
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