Farewell, My Lovely

Name: Farewell, My Lovely
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 8, 1975
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Anthony Zerbe, Charlotte Rampling, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O'Halloran, Joe Spinell

1975

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AVCO Embassy Pictures | Release Date: August 8, 1975 | R

Starring: Anthony Zerbe, Charlotte Rampling, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O'Halloran, Joe Spinell, John Ireland, Kate Murtagh, Robert Mitchum, Sylvester Stallone, Sylvia Miles

Summary: Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Director: Dick Richards

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 95 min

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Roger Ebert

Farewell, My Lovely is a great entertainment and a celebration of Robert Mitchum's absolute originality. Read full review

The Guardian Philip French

Elegant neo-noir with a perfectly cast Robert Mitchum, at 58 the oldest actor to play Marlowe. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

An affectionate adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel that beautifully evokes the seamy side of 1940s Los Angeles via superb production design and the same period atmosphere cinematographer Alonzo previously evoked for Chinatown. Read full review

Molly Haskell

By simply rack-focusing Mitchum in an occasional close-up, Richards evokes an entire biography, a sense of weariness and reflection. [25 Aug 1975, p.66]

Richard Eder

It's as if someone had put pillow springs, power-steering and a tape deck into a classic racing-car. It is still handsome and it still goes, but it is a handsome mediocrity. Read full review

Charles Michener

Perversely, it is a reverence for langauge - the most exciting aspect of Chandler's novels - that does the movie in. With a face like an old catcher's mitt, a beat-up bulk anesthetized by booze, Mitchum as Marlowe doesn't have to tell us a thing about himself. But tell us he does - in gumshoe-ese that echoes Chandler's language without its hallucinatory sparkle. [18 Aug 1975, p.73]

Jay Cocks

This is the sort of private-eye period piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them. Read full review

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