The Long Goodbye Directed by Robert Altman Written by Leigh Brackett USA, 1973 My introduction to classic film was through Humphrey Bogart. I would watch Casablanca (1942) and To Have and Have Not (1944) with my mother, but none of his films had as much of an effect on me as The Big Sleep (1946) and Bogart’s character, Philip Marlowe. Even though I loved the character, I hadn’t sought out Robert Altman’s adaptation of another Raymond Chandler Marlowe mystery, The Long Goodbye (1973), until now. Updating the time period from the 1950s to the 1970s, The Long Goodbye sees Chandler’s
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