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Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 neo-noir [4] mystery film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe. The picture is based on Raymond Chandler 's novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944. [ 5 ]
Farewell, My Lovely was the first Philip Marlowe novel to be filmed. In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, a 65-minute film that was the third in the Falcon series about Michael Arlen's gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence (played by George Sanders), used the plot of Farewell, My Lovely.
The film is based on Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely. It was the first film to feature Chandler's primary character, the hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe. [5] Murder, My Sweet is, along with Double Indemnity (released five months prior), one of the first films noir, and a key influence in the development of the ...
Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler. Farewell, My Lovely may also refer to: Murder, My Sweet, a 1944 American film based on the Chandler novel, released in the UK as Farewell, My Lovely; Farewell, My Lovely, an American film based on the Chandler novel
The Falcon Takes Over (also known as The Falcon Steps Out), is a 1942 black-and-white mystery film directed by Irving Reis.Although the film features the Falcon and other characters created by Michael Arlen, its plot is taken from the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely, [1] with the Falcon substituting for Chandler's archetypal private eye Philip Marlowe and the setting of New York ...
Sylvia Miles (née Scheinwald; [1] September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019) was an American actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).
He first won the role of ex-convict Moose Malloy in the 1975 film Farewell, My Lovely, featuring Robert Mitchum as private eye Philip Marlowe. After Farewell, My Lovely O'Halloran was offered other roles, some of which he turned down, including the role of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me which went to Richard Kiel. [8]
That same year Richards directed Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling in the Raymond Chandler adaptation, Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Roger Ebert said the movie "Never steps wrong" and called it "a totally assured piece of work". [7] Sylvia Miles earned a Best Supporting Actress Nomination.