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As a result of constant pain, a fever caused by the condition and his refusal to take medication, Marlow falls into a fantasy world involving his Chandleresque novel The Singing Detective, an escapist and noir adventure about a detective (also named "Philip Marlow") who sings at a dance hall and takes the jobs refused by "the guys who don't sing". Marlow is "plot-dreaming", trying out various ...
The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and features a supporting cast that includes Katie Holmes , Adrien Brody , Robin Wright Penn , Mel Gibson , Jeremy Northam and Carla Gugino as well as a number of songs from the 1950s.
The Singing Detective was arguably the culmination of Potter's creativity, building on themes he originally explored in his debut novel Hide and Seek (1973), as well as bringing in material and ...
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Nov 14, 2003 · The Singing Detective: Directed by Keith Gordon. With Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam. From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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- Comedy, Crime, Musical
- Keith Gordon
- 2003-11-14
Web exclusive. The Singing Detective (1986) Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, directed in six parts by Jon Amiel, first aired on BBC1 from 16 November to 21 December 1986. That means a quarter of a century has passed in which it has remain un-eclipsed as television’s Citizen Kane (in Stephen King’s estimation) and its Hamlet.
Nov 21, 2016 · In his head, he starts to rewrite one of his own old detective novels, imagining himself as its hero, The Singing Detective, striding down the shadowy mean streets of 1945 post-war London.
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A patient struggles to keep his sanity while his alter ego, a private eye, keeps singing. 68 mins. 2. Heat. Marlow faces his personal misery of the talking cure with the psychologist. 69 mins. 3 ...
