Directed by:
Robert AltmanScreenplay:
Leigh BrackettCinematography:
Vilmos ZsigmondComposer:
John WilliamsCast:
Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Warren Berlinger, Stephen Coit, Jack Knight, Pancho Córdova (more)VOD (1)
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Nothing Says Goodbye Like a Bullet. When private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is visited by an old friend, this sets in train a series of events in which he's hired to search for a missing novelist (Sterling Hayden) and finds himself on the wrong side of vicious gangsters. So far so faithful to Raymond Chandler, but Robert Altman's inspired adaptation of the writer's most personal novel takes his legendary detective and relocates him to the selfish, hedonistic culture of 1970s Hollywood, where he finds that his old-fashioned notions of honour and loyalty carry little weight, and even his smoking (universal in film noir) is now frowned upon. Widely misunderstood at the time, The Long Goodbye is now regarded as one of Altman's best films and one of the outstanding American films of its era, with Gould's shambling, cat-obsessed Marlowe ranking alongside more outwardly faithful interpretations by Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum. (Arrow Academy)
(more)Cast
Elliott Gould
USA
Best movies:
American History X (1998)
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Nina van Pallandt
Denmark
Best movies:
A Wedding (1978)
Cutter's Way (1981)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Sterling Hayden
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather (1972)
Mark Rydell
USA
Best movies:
James Dean (2001) (TV movie)
Hollywood Ending (2002)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Henry Gibson
USA
Best movies:
Magnolia (1999)
Slow Burn (1986) (TV movie)
Mother Night (1996)
David Arkin
USA
Best movies:
All the President's Men (1976)
M.A.S.H. (1970)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Warren Berlinger
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Hero (1992)
Stephen Coit
USA
Best movies:
Brian's Song (1971) (TV movie)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Fear and Desire (1953)
Jack Knight
USA
Best movies:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Pancho Córdova
Mexico
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Pirate Kid (1971)
Enrique Lucero
Mexico
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Rutanya Alda
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
You Don't Know Jack (2010) (TV movie)
Jack Riley
USA
Best movies:
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Frances (1982)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Ken Sansom
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
Robert Altman
USA
Best movies:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Endless Love (1981)
David Carradine
USA
Best movies:
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
North and South (1985) (series)
Danny Goldman
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Carl Gottlieb
USA
Ned Humphreys
Best movies:
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Kate Murtagh
USA
Best movies:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)