tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736891887729249983.post2415197777808420347..comments2023-12-06T00:30:01.898-08:00Comments on Brian Drake At Large!: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe on the AirBrian Drakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01233187184688491057noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736891887729249983.post-16597762694769569012013-06-03T13:37:23.521-07:002013-06-03T13:37:23.521-07:00Having listend to every episode of Richard Diamond...Having listend to every episode of Richard Diamond, Sam Spade, Barry Craig, amoung others, I would have to give the award to Mohr's Phillip Malrowe anyday. Like you said the quality is beyond compare, but it is actually Mohr's character interpretation and the formula I love best. In Chandler's Simple Art of Murder he lays out who Marlowe is to be, and he is more than the cold knight you expressed. It is not that he doesn't care for those around him, it is that he sees through to what they really want and that he sees it too often. He is like the man who works at the carnival ride. When you see him you are in an exagerated state of living, this is your first time on the roller coaster. But for Marlowe, he knows how the ride always ends, but he isn't too jaded to let you ride it out. Mohr simply had the cross to bear that this was the everday Marlowe. You cannot be the novel Marlowe everyday any more than you can have birthday cake everyday. He translated the best of Marlowe into a man that needed to eat, sleep, and fall in love just a little from time to time to keep going. <br /><br />Also I couldn't disagree more with your view on The Little Whishbone - if that is what you are refering to in your comment. Here finally we see what it would look like for Marlowe to fall in love, and reluctnatly he does until he is the opposite of his shell, he is so alive and carefree he even goes square dancing. But she has a past, and it catches up with her. Try as he may to use all he was as a detective to control and contain her past, she runs. It was not a mysterious illness she died of either, in the last line of the teleplay only do we find out he did not come to to her at last to propose or break up with her - but to say goodbye for she was killed by the blackmailer who was after her. Give it another listen, please. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736891887729249983.post-41642115894829167622011-02-19T22:43:51.896-08:002011-02-19T22:43:51.896-08:00There were two or three Marlowe episodes that were...There were two or three Marlowe episodes that were indeed maudlin. I can think of one specifically, the title of which escapes me, that was a rewritten Dr. Kildare story (or maybe it was the other way around, but I heard the Kildare version first) where Marlowe meets a woman, they have a romance, and she dies of some sudden illness. It was a horrible episode. <br /><br />The worst you can say about the Marlowe show is that they stuck to a rigid formula. Not that other shows didn't, but Marlowe's was much more predictable to the point where one episode is the same as the other, give or take a detail or so.<br /><br />But the production values were great!Brian Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01233187184688491057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736891887729249983.post-38500578750491454872011-02-19T22:36:05.524-08:002011-02-19T22:36:05.524-08:00What made Richard Diamond and Sam Spade so great o...What made Richard Diamond and Sam Spade so great on radio was their sense of humor. Mohr's Marlowe had none. And the stories were always more maudlin than hardboiled. Too bad.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.com