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The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman)

May 11th, 2007 No Comments

From the first scene in The Long Goodbye, it’s obvious Robert Altman was on to something with casting Elliot Gould as a character (Philip Marlowe) most famously personified by Humphrey Bogart. It isn’t just Gould not being Bogart and Gould not being a traditional noir detective in any way (Gould’s Marlowe is more concerned with […]