Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film)

Farewell, My Lovely
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDick Richards
Screenplay byDavid Zelag Goodman
Based onFarewell, My Lovely
(1940 novel)
by Raymond Chandler
Produced byJerry Bruckheimer
George Pappas
StarringRobert Mitchum
Charlotte Rampling
John Ireland
Sylvia Miles
Anthony Zerbe
CinematographyJohn A. Alonzo
Edited byJoel Cox
Walter A. Thompson
Music byDavid Shire
Production
companies
ITC Entertainment
EK Corporation
Distributed byFox-Rank Distributors (UK)
Avco Embassy Pictures (US)
Release dates
  • August 8, 1975 (1975-08-08) (US)
  • February 20, 1976 (1976-02-20) (UK)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom[1]
United States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.5 million[2]
Box office$2 million[3]

Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 neo-noir[4] mystery film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe. The picture is based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944.[5] The cast also features Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Spinell, Sylvester Stallone, Jack O'Halloran in his film debut, and hardcore crime novelist Jim Thompson in his only acting role.

The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and released in the United States by AVCO Embassy Pictures on August 8, 1975. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and was commercially successful. Sylvia Miles was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

Mitchum returned to the role of Marlowe three years later in the 1978 film The Big Sleep, making him the only actor to portray the character more than once in a feature film.

  1. ^ a b "Farewell, My Lovely (1975)". BFI. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  2. ^ The great movie money show. Michael Pye. The Sunday Times (London, England), Sunday, July 13, 1975; pg. 47; Issue 7935.
  3. ^ "Farewell My Lovely - Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
  4. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
  5. ^ Farewell, My Lovely at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.

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