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Neo-noir thriller, Farewell My Lovely, the second screen iteration of Raymond Chandler's eponymous 1940 novel featuring iconic private eye Philip Marlowe (the first being the retitled Murder My Sweet in 1944), opens in key markets. Directed by Dick Richards, from a screenplay by David Zelag Goodman, a suitably rumpled, droopy-eyed Robert Mitchum deftly animates Chandler's jaded icon in a 1941 Los Angeles-set story that begins as an ostensibly straightforward missing person investigation before morphing into a labyrinthine murder mystery involving a duplicitous femme fatale and a motley collection of some of the city's homicidal lowlifes. Co-starring Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton and Sylvester Stallone in a bit part.
