The long goodbye

Resource Information

The work The long goodbye represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The long goodbye

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; United Artists ; Elliott Kastner and Lion's Gate Films, Inc. present ; executive producer, Elliott Kastner ; screenplay by Leigh Brackett ; produced by Jerry Bick ; directed by Robert Altman

Creator

• Long goodbye (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Gibson, Henry
• Altman, Robert, 1925-2006
• Gould, Elliott
• Hayden, Sterling, 1916-1986
• Kastner, Elliott
• Lombardo, Lou, 1932-2002
• Mercer, Johnny, 1909-1976
• Pallandt, Nina van, 1932-
• Rydell, Mark, 1934-
• Williams, John, 1932-
• Zsigmond, Vilmos
• Kino Lorber, Inc
• Arkin, David, 1941-1991
• United Artists Corporation
• Berlinger, Warren, 1937-
• Bick, Jerry
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Bouton, Jim
• Brackett, Leigh
• Brody, Jo Ann
• Lion's Gate Films (Los Angeles, Calif.)
• Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959

Actor

• Arkin, David, 1941-1991
• Rydell, Mark, 1934-
• Pallandt, Nina van, 1932-
• Hayden, Sterling, 1916-1986
• Gould, Elliott
• Gibson, Henry
• Brody, Jo Ann
• Bouton, Jim
• Berlinger, Warren, 1937-

Cinematographer

• Zsigmond, Vilmos

Editor of moving image work

• Lombardo, Lou, 1932-2002

Film director

• Altman, Robert, 1925-2006

Film distributor

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Kino Lorber, Inc
• United Artists Corporation

Film producer

• Kastner, Elliott
• Bick, Jerry

Production company

• Lion's Gate Films (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Screenwriter

• Brackett, Leigh

Subject

• Private investigators -- California | Los Angeles -- Drama
• Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959 -- Film adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Detective and mystery films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film noir
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Drama
• Marlowe, Philip, (Fictitious character) -- Drama

Genre

• Film noir
• Drama
• Film adaptations
• Detective and mystery films
• Fiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the contrary, persists in believing that not all relationships need be opportunistic or squalid

Member of

• KL studio classics

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond ; edited by Lou Lombardo ; music by John Williams ; song "The Long Goodbye" by John Williams and Johnny Mercer

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated R

Language note

In English with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.L66 2014

PerformerNote

Elliott Gould (Philip Marlowe), Nina Van Pallandt (Eileen Wade), Sterling Hayden (Roger Wade), Mark Rydell (Marty Augustine), Henry Gibson (Dr. Verringer), David Arkin (Harry), Warren Berlinger (Morgan), Jo Ann Brody (Jo Ann Eggenweiler), Jim Bouton (Terry Lennox)

Runtime

112

Series statement

KL studio classics

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action