

Farewell, My Lovely
"I need another drink... I need a lot of life insurance... I need a vacation.... and all I've got is a coat, a hat, and a gun!"
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $2M
- Language
- English
- suspicion of murder
- los angeles, california
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical8 Aug 1975
CanadaCA
- TheatricalR8 Aug 1975
FranceFR
- Theatrical28 Apr 1976
JapanJP
- Theatrical12 Jun 1976
SpainES
- Theatrical11 Feb 1977
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Farewell, My Lovely was released on 8 August 1975.
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Steve
5/18/2017
www.noiroftheweek.com A few weeks ago, we talked about The Long Goodbye. Brilliant -- at least in my opinion. But purists sure disagreed. "We are fedora." film noir fans said. Well here's a neon-drenched, booze smelling, modern noir that treats Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe exactly as you would have imagined him from reading the books: Hard to argue with that clip. It's just the first few seconds of…
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CinemaSerf
1/24/2025
Robert Mitchum quite wittily narrates as well as acts in this rather dry adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. He's the curmudgeonly PI eking out a living off the back of familial discord and martial peccadilloes. After saving him from an hail of bullets, "Marlowe" is engaged by the monosyllabic "Moose" (Jack O'Halloran) to help him track down his missing gal "Velma". The thing is, once his investigations begin to …
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