The Long Goodbye July 22, 2011

Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. More LA-centric than Hollywood self-centered is this Robert Altman adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s famous novel featuring the laconic, hard-bitten gumshoe Philip Marlowe. Transposed from a nocturnal 1940s setting in In a Lonely Place to a sun scorched 1970s milieu populated by assorted low lifes, pot heads, topless blondes and Tinseltown hustlers, The Long Goodbye trades in the terse idealism of Humphry Bogart’s Marlowe for Elliot Gould’s garrulous, mocking take on the contemporary hero.

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