Poodle Springs (film)

Poodle Springs is a 1998 neonoir HBO film directed by Bob Rafelson, starring James Caan as private detective Philip Marlowe.

In 1963, an aging Philip Marlowe James Caan is newly married to young socialite Laura Parker Dina Meyer. The private investigator leaves his Los Angeles apartment behind and sets up a new base of operations in Poodle Springs, an upscale community in the desert a couple hours from L.A. a parody of Palm Springs, where he and his wife intend to live.I dont do divorces, Marlowe impatiently explains to potential clients in a peaceful, relatively crimefree town. His rich wife Laura would prefer that Philip get out of this line of work entirely and live off her money or come into business with P.J. Parker Joe Don Baker, her politically connected father, but Marlowe isnt ready to permanently hang up his gun. ........

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