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    Long Goodbye, The (1973)

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    Unshaven, unheroic Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) smells a rat when his friend Terry Lennox (former pro baseball player Jim Bouton), whom he has just driven from Los Angeles to Tijuana, is accused of murdering his wife.

    Convinced of Lennox’s innocence, Marlowe follows a convoluted trail that leads him to his friend’s mistress, Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), her alcoholic husband (Sterling Hayden) and the shrill, ruthless hood Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell), to whom Lennox owed a substantial sum of money.

    With his cheap suit and vintage car, Marlowe is a walking anachronism as he moves in a world of wealth and privilege inside the exclusive Malibu Colony.

    Watch out for an early, unbilled appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of Augustine’s heavies, and a cameo by David Carradine.

    Robert Altman directed this radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel.

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    Philip Marlowe
    Elliott Gould
    Eileen Wade
    Nina Van Pallandt
    Roger Wade
    Sterling Hayden
    Marty Augustine
    Mark Rydell
    Dr Verringer
    Henry Gibson
    Harry
    David Arkin
    Terry Lennox
    Jim Bouton
    Morgan
    Warren Berlinger
    Jo Ann Eggenweiler
    Jo Ann Brody
    Detective Farmer
    Steve Coit
    Mabel
    Jack Knight

    Director
    Robert Altman

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