Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.


Director
Robert Altman
Writers
Screenplay
Leigh Brackett
Based on The Long Goodbye
(1953 novel)
Raymond Chandler
Cast
Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe
Nina van Pallandt as Eileen Wade
Sterling Hayden as Roger Wade
Mark Rydell as Marty Augustine
Henry Gibson as Dr. Verringer
David Arkin as Harry
Jim Bouton as Terry Lennox
Warren Berlinger as Morgan
Pancho Córdova as Doctor
Enrique Lucero as Jefe
Rutanya Alda as Rutanya Sweet
Jack Riley as Riley
Jerry Jones as Det. Green
John Davies as Det. Dayton
Ken Sansom as Colony Guard
Uncredited
David Carradine as Dave "Socrates"
Danny Goldman as Bartender
Carl Gottlieb as Wade's Party Guest
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hood in Augustine's Office