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THE LONG GOODBYE

THE LONG GOODBYE
by Robert Altman
Country: USA
Year: 1973
Duration: 112'


the long goodbye

Los Angeles has become the capital of the counter-culture and Philip Marlowe is in search of some food for his cat. That night, his friend Terry Lennox shows up at his door. Terry has been accused of murdering his rich wife and has come to ask for Marlowe’s help. Marlowe covers for him and ends up in prison. After being released, he discovers that his friend has committed suicide. Marlowe is called in to keep an eye on the writer Roger Wade and his beautiful wife Eileen, uncovers a delicate network of relations between the couple and Lennox, and penetrates the most intimate secrets of mysterious Eileen.

 

“We nicknamed Gould ‘Rip Van Marlowe.’ He’s a character who wakes up from a twenty year sleep and can’t understand the world around him. With the prologue, I tried to warn the audience that they wouldn’t be seeing the Marlowe they expected and knew. There absolutely had to be a cat. Chandler adored them. The cat is a solitary animal. Like a private eye. The most important fact is the disappearance of the cat. This is the story of a man who loses his cat and his best friend.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director

Robert Altman

soggetto/story

dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Raymond Chandler           

sceneggiatura/screenplay

Leigh Brackett

fotografia/cinematography

Vilmos Zsigmond

montaggio/film editing

Lou Lombardo                         

musica/music

John Williams

interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters

Elliott Gould            (Philip Marlowe), Nina Van Pallandt (Eileen Wade) Sterling Hayden (Roger Wade/Billy Joe Smith), Mark Rydell (Marty Augustine), Henry Gibson (il dottor/Dr Verringer), David Arkin (Harry), Warren Berlinger (Morgan), Jo Ann Brody (Jo Ann Eggenweiler), Jim Bouton (Terry Lennox)

produttore/producer

Jerry Bick

produzione/production 

Lions Gate, E-K-Corporation

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