The Long Goodbye (1973) Part 11

Robert Altman (Short Cuts, Gosford Park) directs Elliott Gould (Friends, Ocean's Eleven) as the chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe who drives a buddy from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend's wife. After Marlowe's release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and mercurial husband.

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[clodomirocardoso]

One of the best detective films I've ever seen, deeply human and funny and ambiguous. I mean, honestly, the character is not theatrical at all, his emotions are not on display, they must be inferred. At the end you feel like you got to know him and somehow understood something worthwhile. Lovely and brutal, yet sincere.

[mpjrdldn]

Thank God for DVDs and YouTube because this film got a lot of bad press upon its release in 1973.  Us viewing it today know it is a great film.

[RazrHack]

"Yeah, I even lost my cat."

Fucking hilarious. That has to be the greatest pre-shooting line I've ever heard. Such a great noir film and yet the recurring gag about the cat was what made it even better.

[doctorw2]

good movie i love it!

[ThePhilhw]

@TheAndrewcullum

Wholly agree but still a great movie.

Some very funny one liners and great acting all round.

Loved it.

[INDONESIA0727]

up thanks.

[waterswheel]

Horrible adaptation of the novel.

[CascinaGobba]

4:48 nice

[TheAndrewcullum]

Elliott Gould excellent as Marlowe. Great music. Subtle acting and very engrossing. I really didn't like the ending though. I'm not going to spoil the plot, but Chandler's Marlowe just wouldn't do what he did in that final scene.

[MikeMJPMUNCH]

@fortuna068 she was having an affair with terry and she was joining him their because her husband is dead and she is free to be terry. Marlowe and eileen they don't say anything to each other because marlowe knows why she is there and when she see marlowe she figures he has probably gone to see terry and she is rushing to find out what has happened to terry

[jrms999]

5:15 best bit of the film right there

[movieposterbid]

what a pathetic adaptation of a great Raymond Chandler novel. Elliott Gould as Marlowe? Facts are that they took an incredibly complex novel and turned it into spagetti. Much is never explained, the ease with which every, including Eileen wade, gives up information - "yes Roger killed her".. "Yes Terry Lennox is alive" is ridiculous. Marlowe is not a lackadasical detective, and what is most certaionly would never be, is a murderer. I love Altman, but this one is a turkey