The Long Goodbye (film)

The Long Goodbye is a 1973 neonoir film directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandlers 1953 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who cowrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep in 1946. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, and Mark Rydell.

Late one night, with nothing better to do than feed his fussy cat, private investigator Philip Marlowe is visited by his close friend Terry Lennox, who asks for a lift from Los Angeles to the CaliforniaMexico border at Tijuana. Marlowe obliges. On returning home, Marlowe is met by two police detectives, who accuse Lennox of having murdered his rich wife, Sylvia. Marlowe refuses to give them any information, so they arrest him. After three days in jail, the police release him, because Lennox committed suicide in Mexico. It is an openandshut case to the police and the press, but the official facts do not sit right with Marlowe.Marlowe is hired by Eileen Wade, the platinumblonde trophy wife of Roger Wade, an alcoholic novelist with writers block, whose macho, Hemingwaylike persona is proving selfdestructive. She asks that Marlowe find her husband, who, despite regular alcoholic binges and dayslong disappearances from their Malibu home, now seems to be missing. In the course of investigating Mrs. Wades missinghusband, Marlowe visits the subculture of private detoxification clinics for rich alcoholics and drug addicts. He locates and recovers Roger Wade and learns that the Wades knew the Lennoxes socially. He suspects that there is more to Terrys suicide and the murder of Sylvia. Marlowe incurs the wrath of gangster Marty Augustine, who wants money returned that Lennox owed him. Augustine maims his mistress just to demonstrate what could happen to Marlowe, saying, Thats someone I love. You, I dont even like.. ........

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