The Long Goodbye (1973)

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7.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Robert Altman

Starring (View all)

Carl Gottlieb
Wade Party Guest

David Carradine
Dave aka Socrates

Danny Goldman
Bartender

Robert Altman
Ambulance Driver

Sybil Scotford
Real Estate Lady

Pancho Córdova
Doctor

Ken Sansom
Colony Guard

Jack Riley
Riley

Written by

Raymond Chandler

Leigh Brackett
(screenplay)

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9 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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5 years, 10 months 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

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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), 1973 (7), Murder (7), Mexico (6), Betrayal (6), Suicide (6), Friendship (6), Usa (6), Chase (5), Supermarket (5), Bar (5), Hospital (5), Interrogation (4), Profanity (4), Mystery (4), (3)

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