"Marlowe" is the new 'neo-noir' crime thriller feature, directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 2014 novel "The Black-Eyed Blonde" by Benjamin Black, starring Liam Neeson ("Excalibur"), Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Francois Arnaud, Ian Hart, Danny Huston, Daniela Melchior and Colm Meaney, opening in theaters, February 15, 2023:
"...in 1939, On a listless LA day, a beautiful young woman turns up in the PI's office. She is 'Mrs Clare Cavendish', heiress to a perfume fortune built by an Irish immigrant family, the 'Langrishes'.
"Mrs C hires Marlowe to find former lover, 'Nico Peterson', who has disappeared.
"The private eye soon learns that Peterson has been killed and cremated, although this information becomes increasingly questionable as the investigator follows the trail deeper into the company..."
