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...Velma A. Corel Lawrence, Kans...
...production rates about a minus five. Mitchum himself is none too enthusiastic about the movie. Asked if he recommended seeing it, he hesitated. "Well, if it's a real hot day and you want to go someplace air conditioned and there's nothing else to do..." I want my Velma...
...Life. Farewell, My Lovely (filmed once before in 1945 as Murder, My Sweet) is the caper in which Philip Marlowe gets mixed up with a huge bruiser named Moose Malloy. Moose is just out of jail and looking for his old girl friend Velma. Before she is run to ground, Marlowe works his way through L.A., low life to high society and back again, trailing in his wake subplots and an ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays...
...Velma, Charlotte Rampling, a sexy, skillful actress, is called upon to do Lauren Bacall imitations from The Big Sleep and looks abashed. There are a couple of sharp secondary performances-by a Philadelphia pug named Jack O'Halloran as Moose and Walter McGinn as a strung-out musician-but the rest of the cast is mostly good faces with no roles to match...
...bullet-sieved characters. Roxie Hart (Gwen Verdon), a honky-tonk '20s entertainer, murders her lover and beats the rap, thanks to a slick mouthpiece, Billy Flynn (Jerry Orbach). This scarcely matters. What matters is the erotic poetry in motion that uncoils whenever Verdon and her sister in crime Velma Kelly (Chita Rivera) do their solos and duets. They pace the show with spunk incarnate. The chorus is jazzily bacchanalian, and Patricia Zipprodt's eye-riveting costumes swirl right out of a decadent Brechtian Berlin. Chicago is a cinch to take a bite out of the Big Apple...