From 1973, The Long Goodbye is film making legend Robert Altman's update of the classic 1930's/1940's hard boiled noir detective story. He took classic and iconic 1940's detective fiction character Philip Marlowe and had him operate in the more cynical and twisted world of the 1970's, and what resulted is a very unique and interesting detective story, one in which the main character is seemingly out of step with the world around him and must navigate through a world of characters both familiar and different - along with the tough mob bosses and corrupt cops and hard-talkin' characters are hippies and nudists and New Age beliefs and that general 1970's malaise that was just setting in after the intense civil rights movements and Vietnam War. Featuring a great lead performance from Elliot Gould, The Long Goodbye is a fantastic film and definitely holds up as one of the best and most unique noir films ever.
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