Farewell, My Lovely (1975) ( Farewell My Lovely )

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Farewell My Lovely
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Dick Richards

Written By:
David Zelag Goodman
Raymond Chandler

Actors:
Robert Mitchum ..... Philip Marlowe
Charlotte Rampling ..... Helen Grayle
John Ireland ..... Det. Lt. Nulty
Sylvia Miles ..... Jessie Halstead Florian
Anthony Zerbe ..... Laird Brunette
Harry Dean Stanton ..... Det. Billy Rolfe
Jack O'Halloran ..... Moose Malloy
Joe Spinell ..... Nick
Sylvester Stallone ..... Jonnie
Kate Murtagh ..... Frances Amthor
John O'Leary ..... Lindsay Marriott
Walter McGinn ..... Tommy Ray
Burton Gilliam ..... Cowboy
Jim Thompson ..... Judge Baxter Wilson Grayle
Jimmy Archer ..... Georgie (as Jimmie Archer)

Synopsis:

The first of two Raymond Chandler adaptations starring the mighty Robert Mitchum, Farewell, My Lovely put a capital M (for Marlowe, menace and murder) back in the Los Angeles neo-noir. It's 1941 in the city of angels - the police are corrupt, the hotel rooms are cheap and criminality infuses every transaction. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Mitchum) has been hired by an ex-convict looking for his old girlfriend. He's also investigating the murder of a jewellry-loving client. The two cases start to connect while Marlowe develops an attraction to the married but seductive Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling). The body count mounts and it looks like Marlowe is next. Dick Richards' unflinching and deadly serious adaptation (the third) of Chandler's novel glistens with a suitably pulpy sheen courtesy of Chinatown and Scarface cinematographer John A. Alonzo's lens work and David Shire's ice cool score, while Mitchum dominates as the rheumatic, world-weary Marlowe.

Previously filmed in 1942 as The Falcon Takes Over and in 1944 as Murder, My Sweet, Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely was given its third cinematic go-round under its original title in 1975. Spouting the Chandlerish prose as if it were second nature, Robert Mitchum stars as 1940s private eye Philip Marlowe, hired by the goonish Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran) to locate his former girl friend. This involves Marlowe in the theft of a jade necklace, which in turn leads to murder. All roads seemingly lead to adventuress Mrs. Grayle (Charlotte Rampling), wealthily married but far from satisfied.

This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 March, 2019.

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