The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandlerliterary work· published 1953
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In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Adaptations (2)
The Long Goodbye has been adapted 2 times, across film and television series, from 1973 to 2014. The most recent is ロング・グッドバイ (2014).
The Long Goodbye1973 · film · 112 min · dir. Robert Altman · IMDb ↗In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
ロング・グッドバイ2014 · television series · 58 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.4Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective, and has doubts about Tamotsu’s death, but the case is covered up by powerful media mogul Heizo Harada.
