Leaving December 1

Directed by Dick Richards | 95 mins | 1975
In this handsome adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 novel, noir icon Robert Mitchum meets one of the genre’s quintessential figures, Detective Philip Marlowe. The search for a missing girlfriend and a stolen jade necklace brings him into contact with an array of shady characters (keep an eye out for Harry Dean Stanton and Sylvester Stallone), while Charlotte Rampling, as the Bacall to Mitchum’s Bogie, is in steely but ultra-seductive form.