![]() His search takes him to the idyllic Idle Valley, a wealthy part of Los Angeles that’s home to quirky characters and eccentric couples. As the dust settles on the murder-suicide, the investigation seemingly closed, Marlowe is hired by a wealthy heiress to track down her husband, famous author Roger Wade. Marlowe is initially hauled in by police, suspected of being an accessory to the crime, before being released without charge. It follows witty private detective Philip Marlowe as he becomes embroiled in a supposed murder-suicide incident involving his sort-of friend, Terry Lennox. Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is often cited as one of the best crime novels of the 20th century. Instead of setting the film in the early 1950s as per the book, director Robert Altman chose to update the setting to 1970s Los Angeles, meaning The Long Goodbye is an example of a film where the source material was adapted to be set in the seventies. The Long Goodbye is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I make the rules, meaning I can also break them. The Long Goodbye was released in 1973 and set in the same year – a pretty textbook case of a film made in the seventies – and should be ineligible, correct? The Set in the Seventies feature is supposed to focus on films set in the seventies, not films made in the seventies. ![]()
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