{"id":8657,"date":"2009-07-28T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2021-01-27T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:36:48","slug":"long-goodbye-the-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8657","title":{"rendered":"Long Goodbye, The (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay with me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster-193x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster-660x1024.png 660w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster-174x270.png 174w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Poster.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nPrivate eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) drives his old friend (Jim Bouton) to Tijuana in the middle of the night, only to unexpectedly find himself embroiled in a complex plot involving murder, missing money, and an alcoholic writer (Sterling Hayden) with a concerned wife (Nina van Pallandt).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detectives and Private Eyes<\/li>\n<li>Elliott Gould Films<\/li>\n<li>Literature Adaptation<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>Murder Mystery<\/li>\n<li>Robert Altman Films<\/li>\n<li>Sterling Hayden Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;offbeat version of Raymond Chandler&#8217;s next-to-last Philip Marlowe novel is one of his finest films&#8221;. With a script by Leigh Brackett (who also co-wrote the screenplay for Howard Hawks&#8217; 1946 version of Chandler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8691\"><em>The Big Sleep<\/em><\/a>), the &#8220;story is updated from the dark forties to modern, sun-drenched, washed-out, neon-lit LA&#8221;, reimagining gumshoe Marlowe as a &#8220;Jew from the East&#8221; with &#8220;old-fashioned views on loyalty and morality who can&#8217;t find his niche in a seventies me-generation playground&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1823\" height=\"903\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2.png 1823w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2-128x63.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2-1536x761.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hippies2-545x270.png 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1823px) 100vw, 1823px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Marlowe purists are perhaps understandably bothered by these changes &#8212; as well as Brackett&#8217;s infamous rewritten ending &#8212; those willing to accept the movie on its own terms are guaranteed to appreciate the brilliance of Altman&#8217;s unique vision. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much to admire about the film, which features uniformly excellent performances, creative cinematography (by Vilmos Zsigmond), and a distinctive sense of time and place. Gould brings an improvisational air to his incarnation of Marlowe, demonstrating his ability to roll with the punches and find humor in the most absurd situations (he famously ad-libbed during Marlowe&#8217;s initial interrogation scene with the cops, for instance, smearing fingerprint ink all over his face while rapping about Notre Dame football and miming Al Jolson).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-1024x507.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-128x63.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-1536x760.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared-546x270.png 546w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Face-Smeared.png 1817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newcomer Nina van Pallandt &#8212; best known at the time for being the mistress of Clifford Irving, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0462338\/\">penned a faux biography of Howard Hawks<\/a> &#8212; is appropriately mysterious and haunted as an over-tanned Malibu housewife:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-1024x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-1536x750.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2-553x270.png 553w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt2.png 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; whose husband (a shaggy, ominous Sterling Hayden) causes her ongoing distress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-1024x489.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-1024x489.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-128x61.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-1536x733.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2-566x270.png 566w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden2.png 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other minor roles are creatively cast as well &#8212; including director Mark Rydell as one of the most vicious thugs in 1970s cinema:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-1024x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-1024x487.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-128x61.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-768x365.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-1536x731.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence-568x270.png 568w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Violence.png 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and baseball star Jim Bouton as Marlowe&#8217;s border-hopping buddy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1847\" height=\"895\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton.png 1847w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton-1536x744.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Bouton-557x270.png 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1847px) 100vw, 1847px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Altman&#8217;s eternally roaming camera is used to great effect throughout the film, keeping the storyline continually moving without resorting to the hectic jump cuts and rapidfire editing so prevalent &#8212; and headache-inducing &#8212; in modern gangster flicks. He utilizes plenty of slow zooms and &#8220;shots in which people speak in the foreground while action takes place in the distance, sometimes through glass&#8221; &#8212; the latter unmistakably evoking Hitchcock; not a single scene is boringly directed. Meanwhile, Altman&#8217;s choice of locales are distinct and irrefutably <em>authentic<\/em> &#8212; from Marlowe&#8217;s funky Hollywood apartment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s562long.html\">&#8220;on Camrose just South of the Hollywood Bowl&#8221;<\/a> (complete with yoga-loving hippies across the way), to the Wades&#8217; Malibu Colony beach house:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-1024x503.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-1024x503.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-128x63.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-1536x754.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set-550x270.png 550w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Set.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; to the grocery store Marlowe visits during the film&#8217;s intriguing opening sequence (which effectively establishes him as a down-on-his-luck loner who can&#8217;t even please &#8212; or fool &#8212; his own cat). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-1024x499.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-768x374.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-1536x748.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store-554x270.png 554w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Grocery-Store.png 1837w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Long Goodbye<\/em> has been called a satire or parody by many (including Peary), but this label isn&#8217;t entirely accurate. While there are definite undercurrents of humor throughout &#8212; particularly during Gould&#8217;s interactions with an utterly clueless thug who&#8217;s been tasked with following him &#8212; it&#8217;s deadly serious at other times. And while violence is rare in the film, it&#8217;s there, brutal and lurking; as Peary notes, &#8220;what we witness, we realize, is only the tip of the iceberg&#8221;. The film&#8217;s most infamous scene involves a thug (Rydell) inexplicably smashing a glass Coke bottle across his mistress&#8217;s face, simply to show Gould what he&#8217;s capable of. It may not be plausible, but it sure as hell is frightening. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1833\" height=\"885\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould.png 1833w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould-1024x494.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould-1536x742.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Gould-559x270.png 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1833px) 100vw, 1833px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nina van Pallandt as Eileen Wade<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1823\" height=\"891\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt.png 1823w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt-128x63.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Van-Pallandt-552x270.png 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1823px) 100vw, 1823px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sterling Hayden as Roger Wade<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1813\" height=\"893\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden.png 1813w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden-1024x504.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden-128x63.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden-1536x757.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Hayden-548x270.png 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1813px) 100vw, 1813px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mark Rydell as psycho-thug-extraordinaire Marty Augustine<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1797\" height=\"893\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5.png 1797w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5-128x64.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5-1536x763.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Rydell5-543x270.png 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1797px) 100vw, 1797px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vilmos Zsigmond&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1831\" height=\"885\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2.png 1831w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2-1024x495.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2-1536x742.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Cinematography2-559x270.png 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1831px) 100vw, 1831px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fine use of distinctly L.A. locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1819\" height=\"911\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu.png 1819w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu-128x64.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu-1536x769.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Long-Goodbye-Malibu-539x270.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1819px) 100vw, 1819px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Leigh Brackett&#8217;s cleverly updated script of Raymond Chandler&#8217;s pulp novel<\/li>\n<li>John Williams&#8217; score &#8212; consisting of creative variations on &#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221; (written by Johnny Mercer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a cult favorite by a master director. Nominated by Peary as one of the best pictures of the year in his <em>Alternate Oscars<\/em> book, and discussed at length in his first <em>Cult Movies<\/em> book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070334\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1973\/11\/18\/archives\/for-the-long-goodbye-a-warm-hello-for-the-long-goodbye-a-warm-hello.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s562long.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigsawlounge.co.uk\/film\/longgoodbye.html\">Jigsaw Lounge Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/great-movie-the-long-goodbye-1973#:~:text=Robert%20Altman's%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Long,Whimsy%2C%20spontaneity%20and%20narrative%20perversity.&#038;text=Wade!%E2%80%9D%20As%20a%20counterweight%2C,the%20original%20Raymond%20Chandler%20novel.\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/the-long-goodbye\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s okay with me.&#8221; Synopsis: Private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) drives his old friend (Jim Bouton) to Tijuana in the middle of the night, only to unexpectedly find himself embroiled in a complex plot involving murder, missing money, and an alcoholic writer (Sterling Hayden) with a concerned wife (Nina van Pallandt). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Detectives and Private Eyes Elliott Gould Films Literature Adaptation Los Angeles Murder Mystery Robert Altman Films Sterling Hayden Films Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=8657\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66344,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/66344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}