The Long Goodbye
Robert Altman took a Raymond Chandler/Philip Marlowe novel -- God knows why -- and cast Elliot Gould as a private eye investigating a friend's death in the colorful 1970s, a far cry from the noirs of Bogie's Marlowe. It ends up with mixed results -- Marlowe is drawn as a goofy daydreamer (Altman calls him Rip Van Marlowe) and his story only gets interesting when Sterling Hayden, channeling Hemingway, goes bananas.
Rating
3.0 out of 5 Stars
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- Director: Robert Altman
- Producer: Jerry Bick
- Screenwriter: Leigh Brackett
- Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin
- MPAA Rating: R
- Year of Release: 1973
- Released on Video: 09/02/1980
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