Fridays in July are film noir nights on TCM – and in my opinion, the most interesting films (as well as the most recent) are saved for last. At 2:30 a.m. ET, TCM presents The Long Goodbye, a 1973 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel. It’s directed by Robert Altman, who brings his offhand realism to the genre’s studied darkness. Elliott Gould (pictured) stars as a modern-day Philip Marlowe, with Nina van Pallandt as the requisite femme fatale, and Sterling Hayden as one of the toughest of the film’s many tough guys. And The Long Goodbye is followed, at 4:30 a.m. ET, by 1969’s Marlowe, with James Garner in the title role, Gayle Hunnicut as the femme fatale, and Carroll O’Connor, just before playing Archie Bunker on All in the Family, as a hard-boiled lieutenant.