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Los Angeles, California | Private Detective
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Best Actress | 1977 | Lily
Best Actor | 1977 | Art
Best Motion Picture | 1978 | Robert
Top Ten Films | 1977
Best Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | 1978 | Robert
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1978 | Lily
Best Actress | 1978 | Lily
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | 1978 | Robert
Best Supporting Actor | 1977 | Bill
Best Supporting Actor | 1977 | Bill
Best Film | 1977 | Robert
Art Carney won the National Society of Film Critics (U.S.) Best Actor Award for his role in this movie.
As the movie opens, the camera pans from an old typewriter to a framed photo of Martha Vickers. Vickers played Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep (1946), which was a Raymond Chandler story featuring his famous detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart). This is one of many nods to film noir of the 1940s.
Robert Benton originally wanted producer Robert Altman to direct the film. Altman read the script and took on producer duties, but felt Benton should direct.
The only non-Best Picture nominee for the year to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
The movie featured Group Theatre founder actress Ruth Nelson portraying the landlady Mrs. Schmidt, this character name being a spoof of the German aircraft manufacturing company "Messerschmitt". This film was astonishingly Nelson's first theatrical film role in almost thirty years.
"Margo Sperling: I'm gonna' go down to the police station and get a private detective's license. If we teamed up, we'd be great together. Ira: That's just what this town has been waiting for. A broken-down old private eye with a bum leg and a hearing aid, and a fruitcake like you."
"[Ira's talking to Margo] Ira: Back in the Forties, this town was crawlin' with dollies like you. Good-lookin' coquettes tryin' their damnedest to act tough as hell. I got news for you: they did it better back then. This town doesn't change - they just push the names around. Same dames... screwin' up their lives just the same way."
