The Long Goodbye (1973)

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7.9	Rating (283 ratings)
7.6	IMDB rating

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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

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10 years, 1 month 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

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6 years, 9 months ago at Dec 30 4:40

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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

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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), 1970s (9), Neo Noir (8), Drama (8), Thriller (7), Murder (7), 1973 (7), Betrayal (6), Usa (6), Friendship (6), Suicide (6), Mexico (6), Hospital (5), Supermarket (5), Chase (5), Bar (5), Interrogation (4), Mystery (4), Profanity (4), (3)

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