Monday, May 15, 2017

Powers Boothe: 1948-2017

The Big Sleep (1946) is my favorite Philip Marlowe movie, followed closely by The Long Goodbye (1973) and Murder My Sweet (1944), and a lot of fine actors have essayed the role — Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Elliott Gould, Dick Powell, James Garner, James Caan — but my favorite Marlowe performance, the one closest to the books for my money, was by Powers Boothe in a little-seen HBO series from the mid-1980s.

In honor of Boothe, who passed away yesterday at age 68, we here at the Monkey present an episode from that series, "The King In Yellow," based on a Raymond Chandler short story.
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3 comments:

  1. mister muleboyMay 17, 2017 at 10:41 AM

    his turn as Curley Bill in Tombstone was special: evil mother that you couldn't help but

    like is wrong

    be charmed by . . . ?

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  2. mister muleboyMay 17, 2017 at 10:42 AM

    hard to turn away when he was onscreen

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  3. Uncle TomMay 22, 2017 at 8:28 AM

    first time I saw him was in the HBO series you reference - thought it was great

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