The Long Goodbye (Blu-ray) (Import)

Robert Altman directs this radical adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel. Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) smells a rat when his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton), whom he has just driven to Tijuana, is accused of murder. Convinced of Lennox's innocence, Marlowe follows a convoluted trail which leads him to his friend's mistress, Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), her alcoholic husband (Sterling Hayden) and hood Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell), to whom Lennox owed a substantial sum of money. Watch out for an early, unbilled appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of Augustine's heavies. Special Features High Definition presentation of the film from a digital transfer by MGM StudiosOriginal uncompressed mono 2.0 PCM audioOptional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hearing impairedRip Van Marlowe An interview with director Robert Altman and star Elliott GouldVilmos Zsigmond Flashes The Long Goodbye An interview with the legendary cinematographerGiggle and Give In Paul Joyce s acclaimed documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan TewkesburyDavid Thompson on Robert Altman - David Thompson, editor of 'Altman on Altman' and producer of the BBC s 'Robert Altman in England', talks about The Long Goodbye s place in Altman's filmographyOn Raymond Chandler - Raymond Chandler s biographer, Tom Williams, outlines the author's life and work and discusses Altman s adaptation of The Long GoodbyeOn Hard Boiled Fiction - Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s.Original Theatrical TrailerRadio Spots