Farewell, My Lovely (1975) is a neo-noir film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling. The picture is based on the novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler.
Set in Los Angeles in 1941, against a seamy backdrop of police corruption, cheap hotel rooms, illegal gambling and jewel trafficking, private detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is holed up in a hotel room and growing more weary by the h...
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975) is a neo-noir film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling. The picture is based on the novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler.
Set in Los Angeles in 1941, against a seamy backdrop of police corruption, cheap hotel rooms, illegal gambling and jewel trafficking, private detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is holed up in a hotel room and growing more weary by the hour. As he explains to his police lieutenant friend Nulty (John Ireland): "I've got a hat, a coat and a gun, that's it."
Marlowe has been asked by a huge and surly ex-convict, Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran), to find his old girlfriend Velma, a dancer and part-time prostitute. At the same time, Marlowe is investigating the murder of a man who was a victim of blackmail and a stolen necklace made of jade.
While encountering connections to both cases, Marlowe also develops an attraction to the married but seductive Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling...
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