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The Long Goodbye [DVD] (1973)

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Elliott Gould (Actor), Nina Van Pallandt (Actor), Robert Altman (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars 63 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson
  • Directors: Robert Altman
  • Writers: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler
  • Producers: Elliott Kastner, Jerry Bick, Robert Eggenweiler
  • Format: PAL, Mono
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Feb. 2004
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00015N54W
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,288 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Robert Altman directs this radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler'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's innocence, Marlowe follows a convoluted trail which leads him to his friend'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's heavies.

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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 starsA fine movie...and it's possible to enjoy Altman's Philip Marlowe as much as Chandler's Philip Marlowe
By C. O. DeRiemer HALL OF FAME on 5 Jun. 2007
Format: DVD
Terry Lennox has a problem. He's in trouble and needs help getting out of the country. Who else can he go to than one of his best friends, Philip Marlowe? All he asks is that Marlowe drive him down to Tijuana...right now. Marlowe, a private eye who probably has few good friends other than Lennox, does it. When Marlowe gets back hours later, he's picked up by the cops, knocked around, jailed and finally released. It seems Terry's wife has been beaten to death and the police want to know where Terry is. Marlowe doesn't believe that his friend is a killer and decides he'll look into the case. He also is hired by the sexy Eileen Wade to find her missing husband, the aging alcoholic writer Roger Wade. Funny, Marlowe finally decides, that the Wades live very close to the Lennox house in an exclusive, gated Malibu enclave (with a private cop at the gate who does a good imitation of Barbara Stanwyck). Then Marlowe is forced into a private conversation with the gangster Marty Augustine...something about a missing $50,000 of Augustine's that Lennox supposedly had and that Augustine wants back. Marlowe is taught how vicious Augustine can be in one violent act so startling it'll make your stress level rise every time Augustine shows up. Marlowe finally puts all the pieces together, slowly and persistently, until he finds himself in Mexico for probably the last time.

Is this really Philip Marlowe we're watching? Well, it's Robert Altman's Philip Marlowe, which means Raymond Chandler probably wouldn't recognize him. Is this a bad thing? Not at all. Altman (and Elliot Gould as Marlowe) has put his own imprint on the iconic gumshoe. Marlowe is often just confused by things.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsBlu-ray could have used additional Q.C.
By Taylor B. Jessen on 9 Feb. 2014
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
A great Robert Altman movie, currently unavailable on Blu-ray in the U.S. Arrow has done a spectacular job with the packaging - the booklet is stuffed with essays, interviews, etc. But the movie visuals are seriously flawed. In the scene where Marlowe arrives at the party and a group of people are singing and playing the piano, a white splotch of missing picture information is frozen for several seconds at the top of the frame. Also there are scratches and other flaws throughout. So when I see the often muddy color inthe film, even though I know the negative was intentionally flashed during production, I can't tell I'm seeing the film the way it was meant to look because clearly it hasn't been fully restored. I don't buy Blu-rays because I bought the movies on laserdisc and DVD and now I want to buy them AGAIN; I buy Blu-rays because I expect the movie to sound and look as good as it possibly can. "Usual Suspects" dumped on Blu with no extras and no commentary, and now this...is anyone even awake at MGM?
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5.0 out of 5 starsListen Harry, in case you lose me in traffic, this is the address where I'm going.
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 24 Feb. 2014
Format: DVD
The Long Goodbye is directed by Robert Altman and loosely adapted to screenplay by Leigh Brackett from the Raymond Chandler story. It stars Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, David Arkin, Jim Bouton and Mark Rydell. Music is by John Williams and cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond.

Private Detective Phillip Marlowe (Gould) tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife, but he is quickly thrust into a world of bluffs, deceits, alcoholics, violence and a suspicious suicide.

Much has been made about how Altman and Brackett tampered with the Chandler source material, so much so I have seen and read some venomous arguments/diatribes as regards the film's worth. Venturing into it for the first time I was forewarned that it plonks legendary Private Dic Phillip Marlowe into a 70s setting, that it satirises the gumshoe aspects of decades previously to put Marlowe as a sort of man out of his time. Then there's the controversial ending thought up by Brackett, and the casting of Gould as Marlowe that caused some consternation to Chandler purists. So as much as I adore Bogart and Powell's takes on Marlowe, I ventured into The Long Goodbye with an open mind. And I'm so glad I did.

I love it, I really do, I found it so easy to dissociate this neo-noir version of Marlowe with the hard boiled film noir versions from the classic cycle. This Marlowe is a riot, abused and used by those around him, he is world weary to the extreme, he can't even bluff his own cat, who it appears is probably his only real friend. He sleepwalks through life quipping away to himself because nobody else cares to listen anyway, and he chain-smokes, how unfashionable! But he is always cool, even when faced with hostile cops or murderous thugs, his coolness is not for shaking.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsIt`s OK by me
By KaleHawkwood TOP 100 REVIEWER on 21 Nov. 2012
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
In 1973, Robert Altman caught the special wry, shy, impudent, gangly, jazzy, tousled quality of Elliott Gould to a tee. In The Long Goodbye - a delirious riff on Chandler`s penultimate novel - he also showed LA as a boho Eden-after-the-fall filled with unbalanced well-dressed gangsters, scantily-dressed neighbourhood dolly birds, and tense, amoral middle-aged wives. Down these mean-enough streets ambles a version of Philip Marlowe that isn`t as far from Bogart`s (or Mitchum`s from the same decade) as one might imagine. Those who complain that this isn`t much like Chandler`s long, elegiac novel either haven`t read it lately or are missing the point, or most probably both.
I love the way Altman lets the plot hang fire for stretches at a time while we are entertained by Gould`s/Marlowe`s attempts to feed his cat, pass the time of day with the amiable girls across the way - "Oh, Mr Marlowe, you`re the nicest neighbour we`ve ever had" - or engage in backchat with whoever happens to cross his path. This is a man who`s only incidentally a private eye (Altman doesn`t seem too interested in his detective work or the reason he`s on a particular case) and who moves to a secret rhythm of his own, a hippy-jazz-stoner-shamus with an ongoing monologue in his head which, to our delight, we are made privy to.
There are some terrific performances, not least from sometime director Mark Rydell as an unpredictable, violent petty gangster, Nina van Pallandt as the rich-bitch wife, and a mightily indulged though still effective Sterling Hayden as a Hemingwayesque writer, pretty much playing himself, all piratical swagger - Hayden was himself a sea adventurer who would write the occasional book when back on dry land.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

awesome dvd with dutch subtitles... like i wanted.. region 2 !

Published 1 month ago by christian vanwinkel
4.0 out of 5 starsLoaded with extra features

Ok Transfer to HD. But i really think it's the bonus material that worth it - packed.

Published 1 month ago by Jacob Heldt
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

as good as i remember

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5.0 out of 5 starsYou hum it, I'll sing it

Don't go expecting this film to remind you of the great Raymond Chandler's novel. I recommend you read the book (and his other works) and have really good time. Read more

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Published 3 months ago by N. R. Reekie
5.0 out of 5 starsA totally unbiased review (ahem)

I love this film. If film was a person they would have put a restraining order against me by now. The real problem is I can't even exactly explain why I love it. Not rationally. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Christopher Long
3.0 out of 5 starsNot for Chandler fans

Bought this after reading the book and was very disappointed as it reduces a taut 50's thriller to a tawdry,run of the mill Hollywood detective story. Read more

Published 7 months ago by c green
5.0 out of 5 starsA favourite of mine

One of my favourite Robert Altman films along with McCabe & Mrs. Miller and the rather less popular Kansas City. Very good transfer and comes with a nice & informative booklet. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mr. E. A. Dobson
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Published 8 months ago by mjburns
5.0 out of 5 starsall good.

Prompt dispatch; all good.

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