Elliott Gould stars as the famous chain-smoking, wisecracking detective Philip Marlowe in this complex film noir directed by Robert Altman. This time, Marlowe's on the case to figure out who murdered his friend's wife.
Long Goodbye, The Elliot Gould portrays the first spaced-out detective as a hip version of Raymond Chandler's durable Philip Marlowe. Essential viewing for Chandler devotees
Purists may take offence at Robert Altman's interpretation of Raymond Chandler, but fans of the director still rate this Marlowe noir as one of his finest films. In fact, the take on Marlowe isn't as iconoclastic as it may first appear. Although Chandler's first-person narrative prose is replaced by Gould's Marlowe mumbling to himself, the story and script as a whole smack very much of an earlier age. Indeed, the screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who had also worked on the script of The Big Sleep back...
Long Goodbye, The
Any casual viewers of this film will undoubtedly by left confused and bemused by this somewhat rambling literary adaptation. The plot meanders, the characters are somewhat undefined and it rarely sticks to any cinematic formula. But it is exactly these little quirks that will appeal to both fans of Robert Altman?s directorial methods and those who enjoy the style of early 70s American cinema.
Admittedly I have not read any of Raymond Chandler?s books so I can?t comment on whether this is a true adaptation or not, but in its own right this a great film. Elliot Gould was born to play the part of Marlowe, the languid private investigator who operates with the basics: a gun, a bottle of w...
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