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The Long Goodbye
Why this pick
A sun-bleached, corrosive Los Angeles detective story with an unhurried investigation, institutional rot, and a private eye increasingly out of step with the world around him.
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MOVIE1974 2h 10m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray hires private investigator J.J. "Jake" Gittes to follow her husband, Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Gittes tails him, hears him publicly refuse to create a new reservoir that would be unsafe, and shoots photographs of him with a young woman, which are published on the front page of the following day's paper. Back at his office, Gittes is confronted by a woman who informs him she is the real Evelyn Mulwray and that he can expect a lawsuit.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Faye Dunaway
Evelyn Cross Mulwray
John Huston
Noah Cross
Perry Lopez
Lieutenant Lou Escobar
Diane Ladd
Ida Sessions
James Hong
Evelyn's Butler
Bruce Glover
Duffy
Roy Roberts
Mayor Bagby
Noble Willingham
Councilman