麻豆约拍

California 1939: can private detective Philip Marlowe survive trying to protect Sternwood's reckless daughters?

'What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.'

Raymond Chandler's classic of hardboiled crime fiction, introducing the world to Philip Marlowe, published in 1939.

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
General Sternwood .... Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood .... Liza Ross
Vivian Regan .... Diana Olsson
Agnes .... Nicolette McKenzie
Harry Jones .... Don Fellows
Canino .... Peter Marinker
Mona .... Irene Sutcliffe
Capt Cronjager .... Henry Knowles
Art Huck .... Malcolm Gerard

Musical research Adrian Williams.

Dramatised in three parts by Bill Morrison.

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 1977.