Farewell, My Lovely Reviews

Dick Richards hits the noir tradition, a bit late but at leat he could have an excellent Mitchum and introduce Rampling to the darkest sides of life and great secondary characters as Moosey Malloy...

Robert Mitchum plays Philip Marlowe as the quintessential great character of his career: perpetually exhausted, yet always dogged and dangerous.

Film noir's endless exposition often bores me. This picture charges it up by using electric Raymond Chandler verbosity and crossing a raw, unmistakably '70s look and feel with the restrained storytelling of '30s/'40s classics.