![]() Voice-over is an awful crutch for a filmmaker to lean on, but of all the gin-joint films in all of the cinema, the movies where it works best are Chandler adaptations. Mitchum’s weathered voice-over narration decorates the festivities and gives it the world-weariness that Chandler all but perfected. And if the movie is a lot better looking - lurid, neon and shadows design, a properly seedy 1941 Los Angeles - than scripted or acted, well there’s a reason we remember Dick Richards as a creator of iconic TV commercials of the ’60s, and not for his movies - “March or Die,” “Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins” and “The Culpepper Cattle Company,” and this one. ![]() He wasn’t too old to take the part, but he looked it.īut there’s nostalgia value in seeing a genuine big-screen tough guy tackle a story and a genre one more time. ![]() Robert Mitchum was a high-mileage/hard-miles 57 when he took on Raymond Chandler’s iconic private eye Philip Marlowe in 1975’s “Farewell, My Lovely,” a character immortalized by Bogie in “The Big Sleep” in a story of that had been filmed twice before, in the film noir-mad 1940s. ![]()
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