One of those rare cases where the remake is marginally better than the original, Farewell My Lovely not only keeps the original title of the Raymond Chandler novel, it also more faithful to its spirit.
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His life becomes a kind of performance art and Hurt is phenomenal. One of the great queer performances as one of the great Queers.
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What we do have, however, is Redd Foxx as the dad and thank God for that! The result is a laugh every other minute. Foxx does not have to work for it, he’s a natural and he basically saves the movie.
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After two hours of heterosexual escapades—casual hookups, fleeting romances, and Theresa’s own search for identity—the story reserves its harshest judgment not for the straight milieu it has been dissecting, but for queer desire.
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Rod Steiger is exceptional in what is, arguably, his greatest performance. He received the first of his two Best Actor Oscar nominations for this movie but lost out to Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou. He won two years later for In the Heat of the Night (1967).
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