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- 1975
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1975
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Directed By: Dick Richards
Written By: David Zelag Goodman, Raymond Chandler
- 1975
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
- 1975
- R
- AVCO Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 35 m
Farewell, My Lovely
70
8.2
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Summary Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Directed By: Dick Richards
Written By: David Zelag Goodman, Raymond Chandler
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
56% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Farewell, My Lovely is a great entertainment and a celebration of Robert Mitchum's absolute originality.
Elegant neo-noir with a perfectly cast Robert Mitchum, at 58 the oldest actor to play Marlowe.
The film's triumph is Mitchum's definitive Marlowe, which captures perfectly the character's down-at-heel integrity and erratic emotional involvement with his cases.
By simply rack-focusing Mitchum in an occasional close-up, Richards evokes an entire biography, a sense of weariness and reflection. [25 Aug 1975, p.66]
It's as if someone had put pillow springs, power-steering and a tape deck into a classic racing-car. It is still handsome and it still goes, but it is a handsome mediocrity.
Perversely, it is a reverence for langauge - the most exciting aspect of Chandler's novels - that does the movie in. With a face like an old catcher's mitt, a beat-up bulk anesthetized by booze, Mitchum as Marlowe doesn't have to tell us a thing about himself. But tell us he does - in gumshoe-ese that echoes Chandler's language without its hallucinatory sparkle. [18 Aug 1975, p.73]
This is the sort of private-eye period piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 User Ratings
8.2
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 User Ratings
8.2
83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
• 1 Nomination
