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| Directed by | Dick Richards |
| Screenplay by | David Zelag Goodman |
| Based on | Farewell, My Lovely 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler |
| Produced by | Elliott Kastner Jerry Bruckheimer George Pappas |
| Starring | Robert Mitchum Charlotte Rampling John Ireland Sylvia Miles Anthony Zerbe |
| Cinematography | John A. Alonzo |
| Edited by | Joel Cox Walter Thompson |
| Music by | David Shire |
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| Distributed by | Avco Embassy Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.5 million[1] |
| Box office | $2 million[2] |
Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 American neo-noir[3] crime thriller film directed by Dick Richards and featuring Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe. The picture is based on Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as Murder, My Sweet in 1944.[4] The supporting cast features Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles, Harry Dean Stanton, Joe Spinell, Sylvester Stallone and hardcore crime novelist Jim Thompson, in his only acting role, as Charlotte Rampling's character's elderly husband Judge Grayle. Mitchum returned to the role of Marlowe three years later in the 1978 film The Big Sleep, making him the only actor to portray the character more than once in a feature film.
- ^ The great movie money show. Michael Pye. The Sunday Times (London, England), Sunday, July 13, 1975; pg. 47; Issue 7935.
- ^ "Farewell My Lovely - Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
- ^ Farewell, My Lovely at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.