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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.
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 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 ...
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).
In 2011, Radio 4 produced a season of new Chandler adaptations under the banner-title of Classic Chandler.The Big Sleep, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell My Lovely were all dramatised once again, with Playback, and the posthumously published Poodle Springs being adapted too.
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 ...
She gained recognition from American audiences as the leading lady in a well-received remake of Raymond Chandler's detective story Farewell, My Lovely (1975) starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe, and later with Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and in The Verdict (1982), an acclaimed drama directed by Sidney Lumet that starred Paul ...