Farewell, My Lovely
- Director: Dick Richards
- Writer: David Zelag Goodman; Raymond Chandler
- Producer: Jerry Bick; Jerry Bruckheimer
CGiii Comment
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Farewell My Lovely (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.
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Cast & Characters
Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe;
Charlotte Rampling as Helen Grayle;
John Ireland as Det. Lt. Nulty;
Sylvia Miles as Jessie Halstead Florian;
Anthony Zerbe as Laird Brunette;
Harry Dean Stanton as Det. Billy Rolfe;
Jack O'Halloran as Moose Malloy;
Joe Spinell as Nick;
Sylvester Stallone as Jonnie;
Kate Murtagh as Frances Amthor;
John O'Leary as Lindsay Marriott;
Walter McGinn as Tommy Ray;
Burton Gilliam as Cowboy;
Jim Thompson as Judge Baxter Wilson Grayle;
Jimmy Archer as Georgie