

(Avg. 3.5)The Long Goodbye (1973), directed by Robert Altman, is a contemporary film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s elegiac novel The Long Goodbye (1953), the screenplay is by Leigh Brackett, who adapted The Big Sleep for the 1946 film. The Long Goodbye features Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe, private eye, Sterling Hayden as alcoholic novelist Roger Wade, and Mark Rydell as gangster Marty Augustine.