1975, Film: “Farewell, My Lovely”

On August 8, 1975 "Farewell, My Lovely" premiered. Directed by Dick Richards, the film is based on Raymond Chandler's novel "Farewell, My Lovely" (1940), which had previously been adapted for film as "The Falcon Takes Over" (1942) and “Murder, My Sweet” (1944). Main stars were Robert Mitchum as detective Philip Marlowe and Charlotte Rampling as Helen Grayle. Mitchum would return to the role of Marlowe three years later in a 1978 remake of The Big Sleep.

Synopsis

Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran) to locate his former girl friend Velma, a former dancer at a nightclub. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a trail of double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma...

Robert Mitchum

Charlotte Rampling

Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling

Main Cast

• Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe
• Charlotte Rampling as Helen Grayle
• Sylvester Stallone as Jonnie
• John Ireland as Lt. Nulty
• Sylvia Miles as Jessie Halstead Florian
• Anthony Zerbe as Laird Brunette
• Harry Dean Stanton as Detective Billy Rolfe
• Jack O'Halloran as Moose Malloy
• Joe Spinell as Nick, Brunette's thug
• Kate Murtagh as Frances Amthor
• John O'Leary as Lindsay Marriott
• Walter McGinn as Tommy Ray
• Jim Thompson as Judge Baxter Wilson Grayle

Robert Mitchum and Jack O'Halloran

Robert Mitchum

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1970, Film: Ryan's Daughter

"Ryan's Daughter" is a British film directed by David Lean, with a musical score by Maurice Jarre. Robert Bolt wrote the script, a loose adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. The  film stars Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Christopher Jones, Trevor Howard and Leo McKern.

When the film was released, it was a critical and popular failure. After "Ryan's Daughter" Lean did not make another film for fourteen years. His next and last film was "A Passage to India" (1984). Despite the bad reviews, “Ryan's Daughter” contained Lean's legendary craftsmanship, resulting in sequences of breathtaking beauty and erotic symbolism, and which perfectly captures the wonderful Irish landscape and seascape, as well as the claustrophobia of village life.

Sarah Miles

The film tells the story of a married woman in a small Irish village and her affair with a troubled British officer.  1916, World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy (Sarah Miles) goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer Randolph Doryan (Christopher Jones)...

Sarah Miles and Christopher Jones

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role: John Mills (1971)
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography: Freddie Young (1971)

Sarah Miles and Robert Mitchum

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