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4 July 1977 (Denmark) moreTagline:
The nicest movie you'll ever see about murder and blackmail. [Lobby Card] morePlot Keywords:
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Murder
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Private Detective
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Beautiful Woman
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Gun
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations moreUser Comments:
A sweet and unsentimental masterpiece moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Art Carney | ... | Ira Wells |
 | Lily Tomlin | ... | Margo Sperling |
 | Bill Macy | ... | Charlie Hatter |
 | Eugene Roche | ... | Ron Birdwell |
 | Joanna Cassidy | ... | Laura Birdwell |
| John Considine | ... | Lamar |
| Ruth Nelson | ... | Mrs. Schmidt |
| John Davey | ... | Sergeant Dayton |
| Howard Duff | ... | Harry Regan |
| Lothar Lambert | ||
| Beate Hasenau | ||
| Cihan Anasai | ||
| Dagmar Beiersdorf | ||
| Dorothea Moritz | ||
| Erika Wilde |
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As many who have left comments before me have observed, this film echos the detective stories of the 1930s and 1940s. I would go a little further and suggest that the premise of the movie is what would the case be like if Philip Marlowe were roped into a mystery when he was pushing 80? Howard Duff's scene early in the film and even his character's name evoke The Big Sleep while Chandler allusions continue through the film. Art Carney's superbly underplayed Ira Wells is unquestionably an avatar of Marlowe surviving into the late 1970s and into his late 70s. He's a bit deaf, a bit slow, a bit more crotchety but he's still that one moral man walking down "these mean streets" of L.A.
Benton has done some extraordinary work, but this is his elevation to the sublime, a movie that one can watch again and again. It's a minor masterpiece. If producer Altman's own The Long Goodbye had been as good a Raymond Chandler film as this is, Goodbye would have risen to the level of the other two incomparable films of Chandler novels: the Howard Hawkes, Bogart and Bacall The Big Sleep and the Robert Mitchum Farewell, My Lovely.