"It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1973 | Running Time: 111 minutes
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$13.99LONG GOODBYE / (WS DUB SUB DOL)
Alternately a cheeky send-up of Hollywood and a cutting revision of the powerful detective and his moral code, the movie, co-written by Robert Altman with Leigh Brackett, who co-scripted The Big Sleep in 1946, presents a Marlowe wholly adrift in 1970s Los Angeles. Unlike the ultra-cool version of Marlowe embodied by The Big Sleep's Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould's Marlowe is a man out of his time, driving a vintage sedan and impervious to the hippie girls who live across from him. The truth he ...more
- Elliott Gould - Philip Marlowe
- Nina Van Pallandt - Eileen Wade
- Sterling Hayden - Roger Wade
- Henry Gibson - Dr. Veeringer
- Mark Rydell - Marty Augustine
- Rutanya Alda - Rutanya Sweet
- David Arkin - Harry
- Warren Berlinger - Morgan
- Pepe Callahan - Pepe
- Enrique Lucero - Jake
- Vincent Palmieri - Vince
- Sybil Scotford - Real Estate Lady
- Herb Kerns - Herbie
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - Augustine's Hood
- Robert Altman - Director
- Elliott Kastner - Executive Producer
- Jerry Bick - Producer
- Leigh Brackett - Screenwriter
- Raymond Chandler - Book Author
- Tommy Thompson - First Assistant Director
- Lou Lombardo - Editor
- John Williams - Composer (Music Score)
- Johnny Mercer - Songwriter
- Bill Miller - Makeup
- Vilmos Zsigmond - Cinematographer
- John V. Speak - Sound/Sound Designer











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