Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- Pareidolia 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Philip Marlowe - Murder is a Grave Affair

episode 23

USA 1960
produced by
Gene Wang, Mark Goodson (executive), Bill Todman (executive)
directed by Paul Stewart
starring Philip Carey, Gene Nelson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Connie Hines, Malcolm Atterbury, Jack Weston, William Schallert, Dean Harens, Dale Ishimoto, Maxine Cooper, Robert Williams
written by Gene Wang, based on characters created by Raymond Chandler, music by Richard Markowitz

TV-series
Philip Marlowe, Philip Marlowe (Philip Carey)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Lydia (Connie Hines), a starlet in Hollywood, is found dead, and while the police thinks it to be an accident, her father (Malcolm Atterbury) seems to think she was murdered, and hires Philip Marlowe (Philip Carey) to find the killer - and Marlowe soon stumbles upon her lover, director Larry (Gene Nelson), who had just dumped her, and his wife Marian (Betsy Jones-Moreland), who loathed him, and over Larry's other girlfriend and secretary (Maxine Cooper), as well as over Lydia's neighbour Artie (Jack Weston) - enough suspects to make Marlowe believe it really could have been murder and convince his cop friend Lt Harris (William Schallert) to have the body exhumed for an obduction - only Lydia is no longer in her grave.

But at the same time, Larry shows up dead, shot in the head. So, Marlowe has Lydia's grave opened again, and wouldn't you know it, this time her body is where it's supposed to be - and the obduction proves Lydia's death really was an accident. This all leads Marlowe to one suspect, Artie, who soon enough admits to having stolen the corpse to make her death look like murder, and then put it back because this was the last place - he thought - anyone would look for it.

But: Artie cannot be the killer of Larry, because at the time of the crime he was actually with Lt Harris and Marlowe - and what better alibi could he have? So finally, Marlowe closes in on Larry's wife Marian, and doesn't let her go until she makes a mistake ...

 

As a TV crimedrama from 1960, Murder is a Grave Affair is actually rather ok - but don't expect it to be like anything like Raymond Chandler has ever written or like the classic Philip Marlowe-adaptations Murder My Sweet and The Big Sleep from the 1940s, as this one totally lacks the cynicism and also the style. It's merely ok crime-TV, nothing more ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Philip Marlowe - Murder is a Grave Affair
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Philip Marlowe - Murder is a Grave Affair here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Philip Marlowe - Murder is a Grave Affair at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!