Word: gunseller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there first, and Eddie Mars walked out the door to be gunned down by his own henchmen. He had control. Elliot Gould as Marlowe has none. Sure, he has the Bogart style--the self-confident, sarcastic attitude towards the police, the crooks, and even the incompetent gunsel who tails him. But he utterly lacks the substance. When, at the end of the film, Marlowe kills Terry, the friend who has deceived him all along, he's trying desperately to preserve the myth of his existence. But it's too late: Marlowe's dead, if he ever existed...