"The Long Goodbye" is a 1954 American television play based on the novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler.
Although there was a rumor that actor Tristram Coffin, playing a corpse under a blanket, had got up and walked off the set in view of the live camera, he himself debunked this in an interview; while the blanket over his body was partially removed before he was out of frame, he did not walk off set in full view of the camera.
[3] The Hollywood Reporter went even further, describing it as "beautifully acted and directed," while singling out both Neuman's adaptation and Brown's "imaginative and vigorous" direction and judging the fruit of their labor as superior to any big screen predecessor.
If this new teleseries lives up to its opener in future plays, it should become the number one hour-long dramatic show.
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