• The Long Goodbye is a breezily rebellious and enormously likable neo noir. Played with panache by Gould, this version of Marlowe is one cool customer: blithely dapper, he’s an unflappable man of admirable morality. In his slow sonorous drawl, he’s forever making wisecracks to those he encounters and, more oddly, to himself as he casually rolls.

    The Long Goodbye is a breezily rebellious and enormously likable neo noir. Played with panache by Gould, this version of Marlowe is one cool customer: blithely dapper, he’s an unflappable man of admirable morality. In his slow sonorous drawl, he’s forever making wisecracks to those he encounters and, more oddly, to himself as he casually rolls.