The Long Goodbye
1973
****½
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, James Stewart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Gibson, Roger Corman, David Arkin
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes entangled in a complex web of deception and murder after helping a friend, who allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife. Philip Marlowe has come a long way since Humphrey Bogart played him as a sharp-tongued tough guy in The Big Sleep. In Robert Altman's laid-back and subversive crime film, he is a scruffy and somewhat slow-witted private eye. Elliot Gould is wonderful as the cat-loving Marlowe. Memorable music by John Williams. Adapted from Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel.
