But there were 11 episodes in all. The first five, I believe,
were The
Pencil (the only actual Marlowe short story written by
Chandler), Nevada
Gas, Finger Man, The King in Yellow and Smart-Aleck
Kill
series had Red Wind among the six.
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I always thought Boothe
was too much
a bruiser for the role. I dunno, you get an image of someone
in your mind,
or in this case, a sort of body type, and it sticks. Didn't
Chandler say
Cary Grant would be his choice? I like the idea that someone
rather slim is
Marlowe, going up against all these gorilla-size thugs, and I
guess that's
why Powell is still my first choice. But the Boothe programs
are pretty
good, and supposedly a definite cut above the previous series
in 1959-60
with Phil Carey, which was evidently just so-so P.I.
fare.
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