Altman's Anachronistic Philip Marlowe
Altman's Philip Marlowe is an old-school kind of guy, driving a vintage 1930's car in modern (70's) America--He chain smokes (people stopped doing that ages ago!) And he sets out on his adventure trying to rescue a friend he believes has been wrongly accused, (old school values, loyalty to friends!)--Of course Eliot Gould is a muttering, wiseacre (not unlike Popeye!) who gets beaten up and threatened by cops and crooks alike--Gould is a MASH-era wisecracker in a wide-lapel suit from the forties--These incongruities actually make the film that much more interesting, even should one not notice them--We also have the first appearance of our future governator in a feature film, as one of the muscle boys in the gangster's entourage, so young!--Sterling Hayden makes his presence known, very known! And Anita Van Pallenberg (one of Mick Jagger's girlfriends, she was with the Stones in the south of France when they made Exile on Mainstreet)--Altman's fetish for odd, rambling structures, such as the snow covered town of
Presbyterian Church in McCabe And Mrs. Miller, or the Popeye world of Popeye appears here also, Marlowe lives in the "penthouse" of a mazelike apartment building--A riff on the Noir Film, it gets it right and skewers it all in the end! I recommend it.
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