Elliott Gould
Philip Marlowe
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The Long Goodbye is a 1973 American satirical neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman and written by Leigh Brackett, based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, Mark Rydell, and an early, uncredited appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Then you turned around and helped to sabotage it in The Long Goodbye. Do you consider that a betrayal of your earlier values? No. Actually the ending, where Marlowe commits the murder, was in the script before Altman came onto it. The ending of the book was totally inconclusive. You had built up a villain.
Apr 13, 2007 · When Robert Altman made a movie of the novel Chandler considered his best, "The Long Goodbye," Marlowe, played by Elliott Gould, seemed at first glance almost unrecognizable as the...
Mar 8, 1973 · The Long Goodbye: Directed by Robert Altman. With Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell. Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Robert Altman
- 1973-03-08
Maybe the calmest thriller ever made, so when the ending comes it's like a thunder clap on a quiet evening. That isn't to say it doesn't get the blood pumping with a coke bottle moment that may be the most shocking thing since Cagney's grapefruit, with an undertone of menace, violence, and mystery - it's just that it saunters along on skinny ...
- (88.9K)
- United Artists, Lion's Gate Films
- Robert Altman
Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” attempts to do a very interesting thing. It tries to be all genre and no story, and it almost works. It makes no serious effort to reproduce the Raymond Chandler detective novel it’s based on; instead, it just takes all the characters out of that novel and lets them stew together in something that ...
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Apr 14, 2016 · The Long Goodbye. Raymond Chandler’s sentimental foolishness is the taking-off place for Robert Altman’s heady, whirling sideshow of a movie, set in the early-seventies L.A. of the stoned ...
