0 Philip Marlowe on Film: Death Be Not Deadly (1987)

Here's Noir icon Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe in this Saturday Night Live spoof (aired November 14, 1987) of hardboiled detective films. It even begins with a variation on Mitchum's own opening monologue and music from 1975's Farewell, My Lovely which was reviewed on this very blog.Mitchum was as laconic an actor as there will ever be, but he had a mischievous-- or "mischievious", as my 12th