The Long Goodbye is a 1973 USA crime mystery thriller by Robert Altman.
With Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt and Sterling Hayden.
 Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1973 cinema release but uncut on home video.
Uncut and R rated in the US. Promotional Material When private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is visited by an old friend, this sets in train a series of events in which he s hired to search for
a missing novelist (Sterling Hayden) and finds himself on the wrong side of vicious gangsters. So far so faithful to Raymond Chandler, but Robert Altman s inspired adaptation of the writer s most personal novel takes his legendary
detective and relocates him to the selfish, hedonistic culture of 1970s Hollywood, where he finds that his old-fashioned notions of honour and loyalty carry little weight, and even his smoking (universal in film noir) is now frowned upon.
Widely misunderstood at the time, The Long Goodbye is now regarded as one of Altman s best films and one of the outstanding American films of its era, with Gould s shambling, cat-obsessed Marlowe ranking alongside more outwardly
faithful interpretations by Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum.
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uncut
| run: | 111:42s | | pal: | 107:14s |
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| UK: Passed 18 uncut for
strong language and violence for:
US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:
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cut
|  | UK: Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:
Thanks to Pete who obtained the BBFC cuts list: Reel 3 In the scene in which Marty smashes a bottle and mutilates a girl's face, etc.., cut from the flash of the bottle being smashed to the point, after she has been
covered with a towel to the point where she moves left and is masked by the backs of the gangsters in mid foreground.
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