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The Long Goodbye (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)
by Raymond Chandler (novel); Robert Altman (director); Leigh Brackett (screenwriter); Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell (starring)
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About This Item
Beverly Hills, CA: E-K-Corporation / United Artists, 1971. First Draft script for the 1973 film, written nine months before the production began.
From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and "Heat" (Michael Mann, 1996).
Based on Chandler's 1953 novel, the sixth and penultimate Philip Marlowe book. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett, who also co-wrote the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" (1946), updated not just the setting from the 1950s to the 1970s, but the attitudes, themes, and relationships as well. The result was less of a straight adaptation than it was a satire of the traditional detective story, a New Hollywood classic.
Shot on location in Los Angeles, Malibu, Hollywood, and Mexico
Black titled Studio Duplicating Service, Inc. wrappers. Title page present, dated September 1971, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Leigh Brackett. 109 leaves, with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and "Heat" (Michael Mann, 1996).
Based on Chandler's 1953 novel, the sixth and penultimate Philip Marlowe book. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett, who also co-wrote the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" (1946), updated not just the setting from the 1950s to the 1970s, but the attitudes, themes, and relationships as well. The result was less of a straight adaptation than it was a satire of the traditional detective story, a New Hollywood classic.
Shot on location in Los Angeles, Malibu, Hollywood, and Mexico
Black titled Studio Duplicating Service, Inc. wrappers. Title page present, dated September 1971, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Leigh Brackett. 109 leaves, with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.
Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.
Synopsis
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator . During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask . Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep ) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep , were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
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- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 147168
- Title
- The Long Goodbye (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)
- Author
- Raymond Chandler (novel); Robert Altman (director); Leigh Brackett (screenwriter); Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell (starring)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E-K-Corporation / United Artists
- Place of Publication
- Beverly Hills, CA
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Film Scripts | 1970s Cinema | Films with Literary Sources | Mystery and Crime | Film Noir | New Hollywood Cinema | Women Screenwriters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film Scripts; Film Noir; Films with Literary Sources; New Hollywood Cinema; Women Screenwriters;
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