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| ACTORS: | Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Dick Richards |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 August, 1975 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Avid Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 012235110836 |
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Customer Reviews of Farewell, My Lovely
Excellent, but not quite a masterpiece. This film is a remake of Murder My Sweet with Dick Powell. The earlier version is in black and white and very 40's in its approach. Farewell My Lovely is in color and though it tries to capture the old film noir feeling, it is a touch more cynical and modern. Nevertheless it is a fine rendition. It is hard to choose between the two versions as each has its individual charm.
Robert Mitchum is older and heavier than my mental picture of Phillip Marlowe, but he brings convincing gravitas to the role. Charlotte Rampling is at her most delectable self. The supporting roles are extremely well done. The music definitely adds to the atmosphere.
Some of my friends found the plot too complex to follow. I found this to be an asset and part of the essence of the genre. While not quite in the league of a masterpiece like Chinatown, this film holds its own with such modern approximations of film noir like LA Confidential. Turn to Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, and To Have and Have Not for the real thing. Meanwhile, you can confidently enjoy this movie too.
Robert Mitchum at his best!
I watched this movie yesterday and would have to say i was taken aback at how good this movie is. Arguably the best Phillip Marlowe recreation by an actor, showing how underrated Mitchum is, with his superb acting skills brought to the fore in this movie and also narrated in his superb gravel baritone voice. Basically if this is how you end up when you reach the over 50 age bracket, i can't wait! I won't waste my time with the plot but i'll go on to say that the twists and turns are superb, the usual snappy dialouge you'd come to expect from a Chandler book with tremendous support actors & with the very sexy Charlotte Rampling as the 'Femme Fatale'. Please keep your eyes peeled for Sylvester Stallone, who plays a young Hood. Also i can't but help not mention the scene where Mitchum comes face to face with a Hollywood 'Madam' all 350 pounds of her! Basically she (along with every other person in the film) just want's a little information about 'Moose Malloy' who has employed Mitchum to find his girlfriend, she want's a answer and persuades Marlowe with a few hefty slaps to which Mitchum gives his relpy, Punching a women is wrong, but i've never seen a better hit in a movie before!! Overall when "Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide" labeled the movie as trying too hard to set the scene of Hollwood in the early 40's, Lenoard was as usual talking out his backside.
The sets look really cheap.
'Farewell, My Lovely' is a likable detective film, but the sets look really cheap and fake. I didn't get the feeling I was back in Los Angeles in the 1930s; I felt like I was looking at a set that was trying to look like Los Angeles in the 30s. Robert Mitchum is alright, but he is a little too old.