Plays 6/5 - Summer Noir

The Long Goodbye

Directed by Robert Altman (1973)

Robert Altman’s adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye (1953) relocates Philip Marlowe from the hard-boiled world of classic noir into the hazy, disillusioned atmosphere of 1970s Los Angeles. Elliott Gould’s shambling, chain-smoking detective is less a tough private eye than a confused outsider, wandering through a city where loyalty, morality, and even reality seem to have eroded.

Private detective Philip Marlowe (Gould) is asked by his old buddy Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) for a ride to Mexico. He obliges, and when he gets back to Los Angeles is questioned by police about the death of Terry’s wife. Marlowe remains a suspect until it’s reported that Terry has committed suicide in Mexico. Marlowe doesn’t buy it but takes a new case from a beautiful blond, Eileen Wade (Nina van Pallandt), who coincidentally has a past with Terry.

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Special Series

Summer Noir

May – September, 2026

Sag Harbor Cinema turns its focus this summer to film noir – one of Hollywood’s most seductive and ever-evolving languages. Spanning the shadow-soaked fatalism of the 1940s and ‘50s to its sharper, colder reinvention in the late 20th and 21st centuries, SHC’s Summer Noir series traces the genre’s evolution from its classic roots to modern incarnations.