The Long Goodbye
Private detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. Meanwhile, he takes a new case from a beautiful blond, Eileen Wade (Nina van Pallandt), who coincidentally has a past with his friend.
27 October 1920, Dunbar, West Virginia, USA
26 February 1938, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria
13 May 1930, New Mexico, USA
31 August 1937, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 December 1936, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
March 23, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA
29 October 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 April 1927, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
23 March 1929, New York City, New York, USA
8 March 1939, Newark, New Jersey, USA
21 September 1935, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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30 December 1935, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
15 July 1932, Copenhagen, Denmark
30 October 1939, New York City, New York, USA
13 October 1942, Riga, Latvia
8 January 1953, New Jersey, USA
20 February 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
26 March 1916, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA
February 04, 2010
The look, the unconventional cast and the unconventional story make this a unique film, one of Altman's best.
January 11, 2009
Robert Altman's labyrinthine take on the Raymond Chandler classic is noir unburdened by a straight narrative - it's a triumph of atmosphere and attitude, a swiftly unfolding whodunit punctuated by subversive absurdities and shattering acts of violence.
July 11, 2007
Everywhere you look, there's something delightfully weird going on ... Altman and company fashion a state of slouching, freeform Zen that no one else has ever really duplicated.
August 12, 2013
Robert Altman orchestrates a jangly genre autopsy, mischievous and brutal
December 08, 2016
Robert Altman made a bold statement in his casting of Elliott Gould as a Jewish version of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe character in this modestly budgeted film.
December 09, 2014
A playful de-romanticizing of the detective genre...
January 04, 2015
... one of those movies that always flits through my mind when someone asks me to name my favorite movies of all time. I usually don't mention it, but it's always there, on the periphery. It's at least one of my two or three favorite Altmans.
October 23, 2004
It tries to be all genre and no story, and it almost works.
October 14, 2011
A reminder that meaning, if it is to be found at all, is not always revealed through a linear assessment of hints and clues, but simply stumbled upon.
May 20, 2003
[Altman] attempts the impossible and pulls it off.
December 15, 2014
The Long Goodbye as a whole peels back the surfaces of private-eye stories, paying special attention to their macho bluster and abused women.
April 18, 2016
Raymond Chandler's sentimental foolishness is the taking-off place for Robert Altman's heady, whirling sideshow of a movie, set in the early-seventies L.A. of the stoned sensibility.
