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Long Goodbye, The
Long Goodbye, The
Stars: Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Jim Bouton, Mark Rydell, Arnold SchwarzeneggerDirector: Robert Altman
Summary: The story of private eye Philip Marlowe in this tough fast-moving thriller. Marlowe looks into a suspicious death which the police have dismissed as suicide.
Director Robert Altman, famous for his ability to turn any genre inside out, takes aim at film noir with this evocative adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is a relatively unsuccessful private eye living and working in 1970s Los Angeles. Stepping into the shoes of the infamous detective, Gould delivers a captivating performance that is the definition of 1970s hip. He spends the entire film mumbling to himself, smoking cigarettes, and making wisecracks to everyone he encounters. John Williams's composition "The Long Goodbye," gives an added ironic punch to the film's tone. Marlowe decides to investigate a friend's suicide, unconvinced by the autopsy. He is hired by the friend's neighbour Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt) to track down her husband Roger (Sterling Hayden), a successful author and belligerent alcoholic. Slowly, the mystery begins to reveal itself, as Marlowe discovers that Eileen's relationship with Terry was more than merely casual. All the while, Marlowe must contend with police, a psychopath, and a host of other characters and situations that make up the hazy existential malaise that is the world of the LONG GOODBYE.
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The Long Goodbyeis Robert Altman's terrific reimagining of Raymond Chandler's penultimate novel. The author's cynically idealistic hero Philip Marlowe has been played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner--but no-one gives him the kind of weirdly affectless spin that Elliott Gould does here.
Altman recasts Marlowe as an early 70s LA habitué who gets involved in a couple of cases at once. The most interesting involves a suicidal writer (Sterling Hayden in a larger-than-life performance) whom Marlowe is supposed to keep away from malevolent New Age-ish guru Henry Gibson.
A variety of wonderfully odd characters pop up, played by everyone from model Nina Van Pallandt to director Mark Rydell to ex-baseball player Jim Bouton. And yes, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his second movie only) popping up as (what else?) a muscleman. Listen for the title song: it shows up in the strangest places. --Marshall Fine
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