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The Long Goodbye (1973)


Directed by
Robert Altman.

Characteristically putting a new spin on a hallowed genre, director Robert Altman set this detective yarn in a contemporary Southern California replete with bleary sunshine and hippies, a far cry from the night-time and rain-slicked streets usually associated with Raymond Chandler.  Drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, Elliott Gould’s black-suited Philip Marlowe is a fascinating blend of laid-back insouciance and dead-seriousness.

Lions Gate Films/United Artists Corp.  Producer: Jerry Bick, Elliot Kastner.  Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.  Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond.  Editor: Lou Lombardo.  Cast: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson.

35mm, color, 112 min.