Farewell, My Lovely

Director: Dick Richards Dick Richards

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/17/2015
UPC:	0011301634771
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	18,076

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert Mitchum	Actor
Charlotte Rampling	Actor
Sylvester Stallone	Actor
John Ireland	Actor
Sylvia Miles	Actor
Jack O'Halloran	Actor
Anthony Zerbe	Actor
Harry Dean Stanton	Actor
Jim Thompson	Actor
John O'Leary	Actor
Kate Murtagh	Actor
Walter McGinn	Actor
Jimmy Archer	Actor
Joe Spinell	Actor
Burton Gilliam	Actor,Actor
Ted Gehring	Actor
Logan Ramsey	Actor
Margie Hall	Actor
Jack Bernardi	Actor
Bennett Ohta	Actor
Jerry Fujikawa	Actor
Richard Kennedy	Actor
John O'Neill	Actor
Mark Allen	Actor
Andrew Harris	Actor
Napoleon Whiting	Actor
John Eames	Actor
Rainbeaux Smith	Actor,Doris
Roosevelt Pratt	Actor
Dino Washington	Actor
Harry Caesar	Actor
Bill Gentry	Actor
Cory B. Shiozaki	Actor
Wally Berns	Father,Actor
Noelle Worth	Actor
Lola Mason	Actor
Joan Shawlee	Actor
Eddra Gale	Actor
Karen Gaston	Actor
Noelle North	Girl
John O'Neil	un inspecteur

Technical Credits

Raymond Chandler

David Zelag Goodman

Dick Richards	Director
Jerry Bick	Executive Producer
Jerry Bruckheimer	Producer
Chuck Gaspar	Special Effects
Elliott Kastner	Executive Producer
George Pappas	Producer
Raymond Chandler	Screenwriter
David Zelag Goodman	Screenwriter
Tom Overton	Sound Effects
Richard Portman	Sound Effects
Bill Phillips	Sound Effects
Dennis Jones	Sound Effects
Louis DiGiaimo	Casting

Editorial Reviews

Soaked in period detail, the third remake of Raymond Chandler's eponymous novel is fascinating to look at if a mite leisurely in pacing. Gumshoe Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by mountainous criminal Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran) to find a former girlfriend. Raymond Chandler had many qualities as a writer but reverence was hardly one of them. Thus, the reverence for the period, manifest in the impressively detailed art direction, seems strangely out of place for a writer whose tone of cynical romanticism often expressed contempt for the Los Angeles of the '30s and '40s, the time and place of which he wrote. The film has retained his romanticism but muted his biting wit, and in casting the laconic, aging Mitchum to play the younger, highly verbal detective, and insisting on a halting pace, it casts its lot with nostalgia rather than excitement. But, if less well-made than the previous version, Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944), the film has its pleasures, among them the iconographic performance of Mitchum, the wonderful camerawork of John Alonzo, and the brooding score of David Shire.

All Movie Guide - Michael Costello