The Long Goodbye | Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt

The Long Goodbye | Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt | Amazing Film, Decent DVD

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The Long Goodbye

	The Long Goodbye Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt MGM (Video & DVD), 2002 average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Elliott Gould gives one of his best performances (Esquire) as a quirky, mischievous PhilipMarlowe in Robert Altman's fascinating and original (Newsweek) send-up of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story. Co-starring Nina Van Pallandt and Sterling Hayden and written by Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep) The Long Goodbye is a gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter) with an ending that's as controversial as it is provocative (Los Angeles Times)! Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe (Gould) faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster and a suitcase full of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, hesoon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceitonly to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous friendship is murder.

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Buy it for film library!

You really need to own this film. It's truly a solid film in so many different ways. Robert Altman is a superb director. Elliot Gould plays a truly excellent detective who was betrayed by a 'friend' who has ruthlessly murdered a woman. He can't believe that the man he knew was capable of this crime. How did he become the hood that works for Marty Augustine? In the final scene he is chided by the Terry, "Who cares!" Marlowe remarks, "I care", and kills him with a bullet. Was it his disgust with him? Or a sense of betrayal?
Mrs. Wade draws the wrong conclusions about Marlowe after he sits in jail for three days. Early in the film Marlowe tells Mrs. Wade that he doesn't do divorce work but her husband departed before she could separate or divorce from him. So she hires Marlowe to find him and bring him home. When Roger Wade returns home with Marlowe he must be wondering is there a chance to save the marriage? It's those first minutes with his wife that tell him nothing has changed. Like Terry Lennox, Roger Wade has changed. He's no longer the man that his wife married and wants.
He complains to Mrs. Lennox who is determined to put a stop to matters and killed by her own husband when she threatens to go to the police. At the police station Lt. Farmer asked Marlowe how come he knows so little about his friends? He places his trust in them but loyalty carries a price. Was it merely co-incidence? Marlowe receives five thousand bills from Marty Augustine and Terry Lennox for 'his troubles'. Didn't it simply confirm the doubts that had been growing in his mind about a good friend and the crime that he had committed?

Not for Marlowe fans or kids. They'll be disappointed.

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Amazing Film, Decent DVD

Another bare bones classic Altman film. This is a unique look at LA in the 70s, sort of like an ironic Chinatown doused in cocaine rather than alcohol.

not bad, not bad at all, its worth watching,

HELLO, THIS IS QUIET A GOOD MOVIE FROM 1973, ITS WORTH WATCHING, REMEMBER ALL THE GREAT , GREAT MOVIES, WERE MADE IN THE 1970, TIES THANKS AGAIN TAKE CARE.

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