Go to hell darling
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Go to hell darling |
| Original title | Farewell, My Lovely |
| Country of production | United States United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dick Richards |
| script | David Zelag Goodman |
| production |
Jerry Bruckheimer , George Pappas |
| music | David Shire |
| camera | John A. Alonzo |
| cut |
Joel Cox , Walter Thompson |
| occupation | |
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Farewell, My Lovely ( Farewell, My Lovely ) is an American crime thriller from director Dick Richards from the year 1975 .
action
Los Angeles in 1941: Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by bank robber Moose Malloy, who has just been released from prison, to search for his missing girlfriend, Velma. Shortly thereafter, the gigolo Lindsay Marriott hired Marlowe to buy back a valuable chain that was stolen in a robbery. The handover fails, Marriott is killed and Marlowe is suspected.
Marlowe questions some of Velma's former colleagues, but they are silenced. His own life is also endangered, and an attempt on Malloy also fails. Marlowe is kidnapped and drugged on behalf of the brothel owner Amthor. He wakes up next to the corpse of one of his informants, but manages to escape in the course of a scuffle over one of the girls.
It turns out that Velma is now married to a judge under the name Helen Grayle and is also the owner of the chain that Marlowe was to buy back for Marriott. She had betrayed Moose Malloy at the time because of the reward and now fears that her history will be revealed. Syndicate boss Laird Brunette, who was a friend of hers, had been trying all along to hinder Marlowe's research and clear up any confidants. There is a showdown between Burnette and Mrs. Grayle on the one hand and Malloy and Marlowe on the other on Burnette's casino ship off the coast.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "right down to the last detail", "excellently cast" and "exciting". It is "captivating in the appropriate drawing of the milieu".
The magazine Prisma wrote that Robert Mitchum succeeded in "one of the best depictions of the classic hardboiled detective Marlowe by Raymond Chandler". The director takes "a lot of time for milieu sketches" and looks "deep into the life of failed existences".
Awards
Sylvia Miles was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1976 . David Zelag Goodman was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1976 .
background
David Zelag Goodman's script is based on the 1940 novel Farewell, My Favorite by Raymond Chandler , which was made into a film in 1944. The film was shot in Los Angeles and Long Beach ( California turned).
Web links
- Farewell, My Lovely in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Go to Hell, favorite with rotten tomatoes (English)