Directed by Robert Altman

Starring Elliot Gould, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: “Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. Adapted from the Raymond Chandler book.”

-70s Elliot Gould Round 2-

Great movie. Elliot Gould plays the same character that had been immortalized by Humphrey Bogart decades earlier, and he does an amazing job. Thats two for two for Gould in my book. Everything about the movie just puts a really interesting spin on this classic Hollywood genre. I’m actually not exactly sure what kind of analysis to bring to the movie so all that I will say is that I really enjoyed watching it. Well that and that it was particularly interesting to see Altman bring his visual and formal sensibilities to a classic genre like the film-noir detective story.

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*Above is the original poster to release the film, but the studio soon realized that it was somewhat misleading as to the actual tone of the film. So they commissioned an artist from Mad Magazine to make this poster: