Farewell my lovely novel5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() And it is only when we measure the distances between his characters that we can see what he is doing. In a good Mitchum performance, we are never aware he is acting. ![]() His voice and his face and the way he lights his cigaret are all exactly right, and seem totally effortless. Mitchum is one of the great screen presences, and at 57 he seems somehow to be just now coming of age: He was born to play the weary, cynical, doggedly romantic Marlowe. He is not uneasy with it, as Robert Altman was when he had Elliot Gould flirt with seriousness in "The Long Goodbye:" Richards doesn't hedge his bet.Īnd neither does Robert Mitchum, in what becomes his definitive performance. ![]() One reason is that Dick Richards, the director, takes his material and character absolutely seriously. It is not as great as Roman Polanski's " Chinatown," which was concerned with larger subjects, but in the genre itself there hasn't been anything this good since Hollywood was doing Philip Marlowe the first time around. It is, indeed, the most evocative of all the private detective movies we have had in the last few years. ![]()
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