The Long Goodbye (1973)

88 Pictures

7.9	Rating (296 ratings)
7.6	IMDB rating

Add to favorites

Edit page

Buy at Amazon

Directed by

Robert Altman

Starring (View all)

Elliott Gould
Philip Marlowe

Nina Van Pallandt
Eileen Wade

Sterling Hayden
Roger Wade

Mark Rydell
Marty Augustine

Henry Gibson
Dr. Verringer

David Arkin
Harry

Warren Berlinger
Morgan

Jo Ann Brody
Jo Ann Eggenweiler

Written by

Leigh Brackett
(screenplay)

Raymond Chandler

Lists

497 votes

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1001 items)
list by upidipi

Published 13 years, 9 months ago

874 comments

184 votes

500 Essential Cult Movies (502 items)
list by Mackenzi

Published 5 years, 12 months ago

6 comments

163 votes

Listal's Esoteric Films (535 items)
list by Mr. Saturn

Published 9 years, 1 month ago

16 comments

147 votes

About 350 great films (355 items)
list by The Wolf

Published 14 years ago

16 comments

130 votes

6,006 Movies For a Post-Covid World... (6013 items)
list by ToonHead2102

Published 11 years, 8 months ago

14 comments

View all The Long Goodbye lists

The Long Goodbye Videos

Three Reasons The Long Goodbye

74 Views, 2 votes

Added 7 years ago

The Long Goodbye Theatrical Trailer

206 Views

Added 15 years ago

View all The Long Goodbye videos

Cover art, photos and screenshots

4 votes

3 votes

View all The Long Goodbye pictures (85 more)

Reviews

Review

11 years, 4 months ago at Sep 15 17:56

Spike Marshall

1 vote

I decided today to get into Robert Altman after realising I’d only seen McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Popeye by him. So I looked to see which films I had access to and this was the oldest film I could find by him.

Probably a bad start as I absolutely adored this movie, like loved it beyond all reasonable measure. I’m familiar with Marlowe as a character but only as played by Bogart ... read more

The Long Goodbye

8 years, 1 month ago at Dec 30 4:40

JxSxPx

1 vote

Leave it to Robert Altman to take his sarcasm to film noir and emerge with a brilliant take that marries a 40s hardboiled detective to the paranoia and malaise of the 70s. Part of the reason that the film works so well is that it doesn’t treat the source material as a hallowed text, instead chopping and skewering it, rearranging and reassigning various plot strands, emerging with something that ... read more

View all The Long Goodbye reviews

Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's murder.

Release date: 8 March 1973
UPC: 027616879004

Tags: Crime (10), Neo Noir (8), Drama (8), 1970s (8), Thriller (7), Murder (7), 1973 (7), Betrayal (6), Friendship (6), Suicide (6), Mexico (6), Hospital (5), Supermarket (5), Chase (5), Usa (5), Bar (5), Interrogation (4), Mystery (4), Profanity (4), (3)

My tags:

Add tags

Update feed

ramsobrien added this to a list 3 hours, 34 minutes ago

100ish Films to Return to (692 movies items)

samira added this to a list 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Every Movie Ever! (13121 movies items)

henrik4075 voted for an image 1 year ago

Totoro added this to a list 1 year ago

Totoro's 2022 Movie Diary (115 movies items)

" JANUARY 10, 2022 THE LONG GOODBYE (1973, dir: Robert Altman) Cast: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden My rating: 8/10 Watched on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO - Hollywood Suite"

moviebuff added this to a list 1 year, 1 month ago

101 Film Noir Movies You See Before You Die (103 movies items)

PulpRoman added this to a list 1 year, 3 months ago

Dream and Drug Induced Reveries (43 movies items)

apc 53 added this to a list 1 year, 3 months ago

Watched in 2021 (228 movies items)

"17.10"

Stehako added this to a list 1 year, 5 months ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2016 Edition) (1001 movies items)

"2015: 847 2014: 813 2013: 792 2012: 760 2011: 736 2010: 712 "

Haribo posted 5 images [View All] 1 year, 5 months ago

Termos added this to a list 1 year, 7 months ago

Rainaloki 2021 (66 movies items)

"4.7."

The Wolf added this to a list 1 year, 9 months ago

Watched films in 2021 (161 movies items)

"3.5. Blu-ray Uusintakatselu. Viiden tähden projektin seuraava uhri, 70-luvun Amerikasta kuinka ollakkaan, ei kyllä tyylipisteitä ole menettänyt. Jotain tosin lienee. Film noir -perinteiden kanssa leikittely viehättää ja Elliott Gouldin roolityö on (pitkälti samoista syistäkin) kuten Warren Oates Alfredo Garciassa, suursuosikkejani."

SleepyHollowFan5 added this to a list 1 year, 9 months ago

Movies I Saw In April 2021. (20 movies items)

"4/21/2021."

crazymetalhead added this to a list 1 year, 10 months ago

10,001 MOVIES YOU NEED TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE (2260 movies items)

SleepyHollowFan5 added this to a list 2 years, 1 month ago

Movies I Saw In December 2020. (20 movies items)

"12/31/2020."

Stehako added this to a list 2 years, 3 months ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2015 Edition) (1001 movies items)

"2014: 813 2013: 792 2012: 760 2011: 736 2010: 712 "

Kandi added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago

When the Character Is News in Newspaper (50 movies items)

" Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe"

Kandi voted for an image 2 years, 4 months ago

Kandi added this to a list 2 years, 6 months ago

Ambulance Scenes - Movies (29 movies items)

Stehako added this to a list 2 years, 6 months ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2014 Edition) (1000 movies items)

"2013: 792 2012: 760 2011: 736 2010: 712 "

Kandi added this to a list 2 years, 7 months ago

Private Detectives - Movies (28 movies items)

" Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe"

jim222001 added this to a list 2 years, 7 months ago

The Best Mysteries (60 movies items)

stobesultan added this to a list 2 years, 8 months ago

Elokuvat 2020 (530 movies items)

Kandi posted 2 images 2 years, 8 months ago

Stehako added this to a list 2 years, 10 months ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2013 Edition) (1000 movies items)

"2012: 760 2011: 736 2010: 712 "

sdepy83 added this to a list 3 years, 1 month ago

1973 Films Ranked (35 movies items)

sdepy83 voted for an image 3 years, 1 month ago

diabolical dr voodoo added this to a list 3 years, 1 month ago

Meus DVDs (2896 movies items)

"Long Goodbye, The (Robert Altman, 1973) "

Stehako added this to a list 3 years, 1 month ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2012 Edition) (1000 movies items)

"2011: 736 2010: 712 "

Clarence added this to a list 3 years, 6 months ago

Watched (2019) (1200 movies items)

Mikey M added this to a list 3 years, 6 months ago

Empire top 500 (450 movies items)

Exclusive voted for an image 3 years, 6 months ago

Stehako added this to a list 3 years, 8 months ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2011 Edition) (1000 movies items)

"2010: 712 "

JxSxPx added this to a list 3 years, 9 months ago

Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)

"Simultaneously an act of revisionism as well as a parody of then-revitalizing neo-noir, Robert Altman’s adaptation of pulp legend Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is perhaps the director’s most audacious act of genre deconstruction in a career filled with contenders, most of which are accompanied by ampersands: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, O.C. & Stiggs, and Vincent & Theo. There’s no “and” to pair off with Elliot Gould’s interpretation of Philip Marlowe. Though the film opens on a not"

Stehako added this to a list 3 years, 10 months ago

Favorite Movies of All Time (2010 Edition) (1000 movies items)