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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
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Release Date:
8 August 1975 (USA)
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Plot:
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944)...
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Private Eye
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Nightclub
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Murder
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Convertible
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Secret Past
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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different to the first
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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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95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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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
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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.
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Continuity: When the boat captain, Marlowe, and Malloy are negotiating about the boat rental fee, the captain's cigarette suddenly disappears between shots.
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Quotes:
Philip Marlowe:
[voiceover] The house itself wasn't much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler building.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
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Soundtrack:
Sunday
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The choice of Mitchum for the lead role really did work. The novel suggest a tired Marlowe, who has had enough of being "detective to the stars". He wants to get out of his seedy little life, and change things, but instead, he gets wrapped up in another case. Mitchum's hang dog expression and tired wise guy act sums up the depression of the fallen hero. This is not the smooth talking Bogart, not the finely clipped and smooth Powell, but a harder, more experienced Marlowe, a man more aware of his own downfall. As he says to knulty, what he need is a nights sleep, what he needs is another drink. After watching this truly excellent recreation of late forties LA, I'm not sure that I couldn't agree with him.
Ah yes, and Charlotte Rampling and the sometime Thelma really was "cuter than lace pants"