Raymond Chandler's cynically idealistic hero of The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe, has been played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner--but no one gives him the kind of weirdly affect-less spin that Elliott Gould does in this terrific Robert Altman reimagining of Chandler's penultimate novel. Altman recasts Marlowe as an early 70s Los Angeles 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-Ageish... 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-baseballer Jim Bouton. And yes, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger (in only his second movie) popping up as (what else?) a muscleman. Listen for the title song: it shows up in the strangest places. --Marshall Fine [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Robert Altman directs this radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler&39;s novel Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) smells a rat when his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) whom he has just driven to Tijuana is accused of murder Convinced of Lennox&39;s innocence Marlowe follows a convoluted trail which leads him to his friend&39;s mistress Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt) her alcoholic husband (Sterling Hayden) and hood Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell) to whom Lennox owed a substantial sum of money Watch out for an early unbilled appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of Augustine&39;s heavies
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