Changes: Farewell, My Lovely

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Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Dick Richards, starring Robert Mitchum and featuring Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles and Harry Dean Stanton, with an early screen appearance by Sylvester Stallone. The film is based on the Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel of the same name

Plot

Ex-con Moose (Jack O'Halloran) hires private eye Phillip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) to find his long-lost girlfriend, Velma, a lounge singer. The lounge owner's wife says she's dead, but Marlowe remains skeptical. Meanwhile, Marlowe also goes on a routine ransom exchange for a necklace and gets knocked out and framed for murder. He eventually finds the necklace's owner, blonde bombshell Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling) but, more importantly, evidence that the two cases are connected.

Cast

Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe
Charlotte Rampling as Helen Grayle/Velma
John Ireland as Lt. Nulty
Sylvia Miles as Jessie Halstead Florian
Anthony Zerbe as Laird Brunette
Harry Dean Stanton as Detective Billy Rolfe
Jack O'Halloran as Moose Malloy
Joe Spinell as Nick
Sylvester Stallone as Jonnie
Kate Murtagh as Frances Amthor (believed to be based on Brenda Allen)
John O'Leary as Lindsay Marriott
Walter McGinn as Tommy Ray
Burton Gilliam as Cowboy
Jim Thompson as Judge Baxter Wilson Grayle
Jimmie Archer as Georgie
Ted Gehring as Roy

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