It’s clear confirmation that doing something nice can backfire! "Marlowe" (Elliott Gould) is disturbed in the night by his friend ("Lennox"), who insists on being driven to Tijuana. He agrees, but upon returning, he's met by police. Apparently, Lennox's wife has been murdered. Though initially suspected of involvement, Marlowe is freed when news arrives suggesting the main person responsible took their own life. The …

This neo-noir drama from the nineteen seventies is quite enjoyable, largely thanks to Elliot Gould’s acting and a cleverly constructed sense of intrigue. While I found the resolution fairly easy to anticipate, it still managed to feel complete. **3.75/5**

A weary, principled private investigator finds himself embroiled in trouble after a late-night drive to Mexico with a friend (Jim Bouton) leads to unwanted attention from the police (Elliott Gould). He accepts a case from a writer’s wife seeking her missing, hard-drinking husband (Nina van Pallandt & Sterling Hayden), and soon he's dodging gangsters pursuing $350,000 (Mark Rydell, David Arkin, among others) while try…