Farewell, My Lovely

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Kim P @RT98672688 Jun 14 If you don't know the meaning of the word "laconic", watch Robert Mitchum around this stage in his movie career. Bogart may have started the "world-weary, seen-it-all-and-not-impressed" demeanor in playing his cynical characters, but he still gave the impression that he still cared at some very small level. Mitchum gives exactly zero effs. The casting is fun: Willie Cicci from Godfather 2, Rocky Balboa, and Lyle, (Taggart's henchman) in Blazing Saddles...all make short appearances. Good film for its era. See more Wayne B @DougAngstrom Jan 22 Gritty like the novel. Most of the cast seemed inexperienced, delivery stilted and amateurish. The femme fatale was particularly overdrawn. The whole thing felt to me slapped together and unpolished but intended to ride the wave Chinatown started the year before. See more Stephen C @bob25009 06/27/2025 Success in 1 hour and 37 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more David A @RT73964334 08/20/2024 Extremely entertaining film from 1975...Greatest year for movies ever. See more 08/09/2023 based on the novel by Raymond Chandler and is actually the 2nd time it’s been adapted comes a story about a private eye who's feeling a bit weary now these days set in the 1940's Robert Mitchum is detective Phillip Marlowe who makes his living finding lost people; recently he gets hired by an ex-con to track down his gf, Velma who used to be a lounge singer during this Marlowe unwillingly gets framed for murder and he collides with a woman named Helen Charlotte Rampling is Helen Grayle who's the owner of a valuable necklace but it's possible at this point maybe the murders that have been happening and this missing woman are somehow tied together but how? Marlowe then gets caught up from one bad scenario to another slowly putting the pieces together this is a good ol' fashioned mystery story with nice plot turns with a classic noir feel to it and given it's set in the past helps elevate it there's cool small parts here played by the late Harry Dean-Stanton and a young Sylvester Stallone but it really is Mitchum who has class and charisma on the screen as Marlowe, he takes a beating just to get closer to the truth of the matter and lets nothing phase him, he always knows how to put on a smile but never lose sight of the situation he finds himself in this one has aged considerably well plus it sticks closer to the original source material See more Paul G @RT67423558 09/10/2022 From what I remember of the book the film follows it pretty closely which is good but for me Robert Mitchum is no Marlowe. Dirk Bogarde plays the character much better. The one-liners just don't work when Mitchum says them. I also think Marlowe needs to be filmed in noir and this doesn't have any. Disappointing. See more Read all reviews

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