29 Dec 2016

Farewell, My Lovely (USA, 1975)

Farewell, My Lovely (USA, 1975). Director: Dick Richards. Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O'Halloran...

Robert Mitchum, who starred in several classic film noirs, plays an older, world-weary private detective Philip Marlowe in this neo-noir. As usual with Raymond Chandler’s detective novel adaptations, it’s filled with narration and wisecracks.

At the end of the movie, Marlowe, who kept mentioning baseball and Joe DiMaggio throughout the movie, is in a penny arcade checking out a 1937 World Series (Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp., 1937-1941) bat game machine...


When he walks out, on the left is a row of Skee-Ball games, and on the right we can spot a Jolly Joker (Williams, 1955) woodrail pinball machine. However, it looks like the front of the cabinet isn’t the right one. In any case, since the movie is set in summer/fall of 1941, the machine is an anachronism...

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