Title: $50 Per Day Plus Expenses
Product review: A youthful Elliot Gould at the top of his form makes for an easy-going yet no nonsense Phillip Marlowe in this contemporized (1973) adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name. Directed by Robert Altman from Leigh Brackett's screenplay, Gould's Marlowe is an irreverent and "laid-back-until-pushed-too-hard" private detective who goes to the aid of a friend only to become immersed in a mystery of deceit, drug money and double murder. Gould's chain-smoking and cat-loving Marlowe is surrounded with typical 70s-circa Hollywood/Malibu characters including uninhibited hippie-chick neighbors, an assortment of thugs both criminal and badged, a controlling sanitarium administrator, and an alcohol-abusive novelist played by 50s star Sterling Hayden (Asphalt Jungle, Dr.Strangelove). A very cool John Williams/Johnny Mercer musical score helps establish and sustain the film's mood which ends with a scene that's both controversial as well as provocative. - DM
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