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Murder, My Sweet: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger. After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
- Edward Dmytryk
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- 2 min
Murder, My Sweet (released as Farewell, My Lovely in the United Kingdom) is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley (in her final film before retirement). [4] The film is based on Raymond Chandler 's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely.
- $400,000
- Adrian Scott
Gun drawn, he walks some distance into the bushes. Finding nothing but a deer, he returns to the car, where he is coldcocked by a blackjack. When he awakens, a woman asks if he is all right, then, apparently recognizing him, runs. Marriott has been killed and dumped in the back seat.
Murder, My Sweet is one of the best 1940s film noirs. It is made with a technical flair that produced striking images, the dialogue is punchy, sharp and witty, the acting is uniformly good, and ...
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- Dick Powell
- Edward Dmytryk
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Murder, My Sweet, American film noir, released in 1944, that was notable as the screen debut of author Raymond Chandler ’s hard-boiled, world-weary detective Philip Marlowe. It was based on Chandler’s 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The cynical, smart-talking detective ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
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Murder, My Sweet is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley. The film is based on Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely. It was the first film to feature Chandler's primary character, the hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe.
Edward Dmytryk. Director. Raymond Chandler. Novel. John Paxton. Screenplay. Reviews. Written by John Chard on December 22, 2018. After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
