When a private detective drives a friend to the border, he must find out who is lying about the body left behind.

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When a shabby private eye gives an old friend a lift to Mexico and comes home to police, a dead wife and a suicide note that closes the case, in a world where everyone from a drunken novelist to a gangster with a Coke bottle wants him to stop asking, a man loyal to a code nobody else observes must keep pulling the thread, before he learns exactly what his friendship was worth.

Film: The Long Goodbye · Writer(s): Leigh Brackett · Director: Robert Altman · Year: 1973