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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
David Zelag Goodman (screenplay)
Raymond Chandler (novel)
Release Date:
8 August 1975 (USA) more
Plot:
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944)... more | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Chandler Without the CODE more (46 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Mitchum | ... | Philip Marlowe | |
| Charlotte Rampling | ... | Helen Grayle | |
| John Ireland | ... | Det. Lt. Nulty | |
| Sylvia Miles | ... | Jessie Halstead Florian | |
| Anthony Zerbe | ... | Laird Brunette | |
| Harry Dean Stanton | ... | Det. Billy Rolfe | |
| Jack O'Halloran | ... | Moose Malloy | |
| Joe Spinell | ... | Nick | |
| Sylvester Stallone | ... | Jonnie | |
| Kate Murtagh | ... | Frances Amthor | |
| John O'Leary | ... | Lindsay Marriott | |
| Walter McGinn | ... | Tommy Ray | |
| Burton Gilliam | ... | Cowboy | |
| Jim Thompson | ... | Judge Baxter Wilson Grayle | |
| Jimmy Archer | ... | Georgie (as Jimmie Archer) |
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Runtime:
95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Norway:16 | Iceland:12 | France:U | Germany:16 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
1024 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Trivia:
When asked why Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) cares about Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran), he says, "I don't know. Ever since I saw that movie, King Kong, I've been a sucker for any gorilla that falls in love with a girl." O'Halloran would appear in the King Kong remake, the following year. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the boat captain, Marlowe, and Malloy are negotiating about the boat rental fee, the captain's cigarette suddenly disappears between shots. more
Quotes:
Detective #1:
We found your card on his body.
Philip Marlowe:
They give 'em out with bubblegum.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Dallas: Farewell, My Lovely (#14.19)" (1991) more
Soundtrack:
I've Heard That Song Before more
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When Dick Powell did his version of this Raymond Chandler classic Philip Marlowe story, he and RKO were laboring under the handicap of the motion picture code. Certain things like prostitution and homosexuality were simply not talked about in those times. Still with the changes that had to be made in the plot a really great version was done and it changed the career of Dick Powell forever.
Now back in those days, Robert Mitchum was getting started and would soon be doing many a noir film for RKO himself. In getting him for this version under the original title of Farewell My Lovely the producers certainly got themselves someone with whom the Philip Marlowe character fit like a glove.
Even with color, this version is remarkably evocative of the Forties style noir film. Charlotte Rampling steps nicely into the well trod path of people like Lauren Bacall and Lizabeth Scott.
For those who don't know the barebones of the story, Philip Marlowe is hired to find Velma Valento by her old gangster boy friend, a giant of a man named Moose Malloy who just finished doing a stretch in prison. Later on a man named Lindsay Marriott hires him to as a bodyguard and he's killed. The two cases are related and the how and why is what moves the plot.
John Ireland another forties veteran of many a noir film plays police lieutenant Nulty and my favorite in the film is Sylvia Miles who is the luckless dipsomaniacal Mrs. Florian.
I do marvel when I see this film at how well the spirit of the forties was captured in this film. Turn off the color on your set and its just like watching a great noir flick from that decade.