Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye

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The Long Goodbye (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. (read review)

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“There's probably not much to be said that hasn't already. Though part of me couldn't shake the image of Steve Martin shaving his tongue in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, this was a wonderful noir crime story. I haven't read much (if any) crime, but I can't imagine it getting better than this. Chandler has perfected a uniquely melodramatic delivery that can't help but seem gritty and real. I confess I was 2/3 through and thought the crime was solved...yet was riveted through to the final...”

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kasper said:

“I perfectly understand all the criticism, but it only works in relation to the book. I just really like the film for what it is but you have to forget anything to do with Chandler, Marlowe et al...”

posted Thursday, August 30 2007

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