The movie had a gag from Mr Hulot's Holiday. Philip Marlowe (Elliott
Gould) stops and honks at a dog in the street but it won't get out of
his way. Even the dogs don't respect him. It was 1973. Marlowe's 1948 Lincoln Continental was only 25 years old.
With Jack Riley, Mr Carlin from The Bob Newhart Show, playing the movie's theme on a piano in a bar. Henry Gibson as a crooked psychiatrist. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a non-speaking role. I liked Stephen Coit as the belligerent police detective with a comb over. When anyone is hostile or threatens him, he says, "Stand in line, baby." The least cool guy in the movie still made an effort.
The movie was more coherent than the 1953 novel and it had a better ending.
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