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Excellent. However, it's unfortunate the censors wouldn't allow more from the Raymond Chandler book it was based on into the movie. That would have made the plot a bit more understandable, but the viewer can read between the lines easy enough. What is very understandable is Bogart, as usual, steals the film. No one has ever, or will ever play a hard-boiled private eye as well as he could.
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I loved The Big Sleep and I thought Farewell My Lovely was good, too. It's another Marlowe story and this one is just a little whacky. One reason I was drawn to it was Jim Bouton is in it. Baseball fans of a certain age know who he was. I say 'was' because he just passed the day before I bought this. I had another copy of this but I moved and haven't been able to find it yet. I decided to quit looking for it and buy another. Now, I know the other will show up. Another thing about this film is his cat is gone by the end. I hope this doesn't spoil it for you. When the Showtime series Ray Donovan started, there's an episode where Eliot Gould's character is looking for his lost cat. We are then told he hasn't had a cat in 40 years. Ray Donovan came out in 2013, this film was released in 1973. Do the math. I've heard a phrase for this reference in films but I can't recall it. Enjoy.Read full review
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This film, based on a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe novel--William Faulkner had a hand in the scripting--is a classic noir film with a complex and very tangled plot, the principals famously said, and this includes Faulkner, they really weren't sure what exactly happens--But, it is wonderful in its enigmatic nature, especially Bogart and Bacall, worth viewing for the first or umpteenth time!
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Fantastic movie
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The two versions of this story is excellent a great oldie tough guy smart mouth lines love it
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