Synopsis
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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Cast
- Elliott GouldPhilip Marlowe
- Nina van PallandtEileen Wade
- Sterling HaydenRoger Wade
- Mark RydellMarty Augustine
- Henry GibsonDr. Verringer
- David ArkinHarry
- Jim BoutonTerry Lennox
- Warren BerlingerMorgan
- Jo Ann BrodyJo Ann Eggenweiler
- Stephen CoitDetective Farmer
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye attacks film noir with three of his most cherished tools: Whimsy, spontaneity and narrative perversity. - 100
The New York Times
It's great fun and it's funny, but it's a serious, unique work. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
A gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood that never loses sight of what Los Angeles has become. - 90
Time Out
Despite cries of outrage from hard-line Chandler purists, this is, along with Hawks' The Big Sleep, easily the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of the writer's work. - 80
The Dissolve
Sometimes important plot-points unfold through windows, too, and The Long Goodbye as a whole peels back the surfaces of private-eye stories, paying special attention to their macho bluster and abused women. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
If you can have another movie myth shattered in high style, with love as well as wit, The Long Goodbye is for you. [29 Oct 1973, p.80] - 80
The New Yorker
Altman gracefully kisses off the private-eye form in soft, mellow color and volatile images; the cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond is responsible for the offhand visual pyrotechnics (the imagery has great vitality). Gould gives a loose and woolly, strikingly original performance. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
While it may not be Chandler, it is a moody and entertaining film.
