Murder, My Sweet (1944) (Farewell My Lovely) (1944)

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7.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Starring (View all)

Dick Powell
Philip Marlowe

Claire Trevor
Helen Grayle

Anne Shirley
Ann Grayle

Otto Kruger
Jules Amthor

Mike Mazurki
Joe 'Moose' Malloy

Miles Mander
Leuwen Grayle

Douglas Walton
Lindsay Marriott

Donald Douglas
Police Lt. Randall

Written by

John Paxton
(screenplay)

Raymond Chandler
(novel)

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13 years, 6 months ago at Oct 9 14:06

Jamii

The story is engaging and makes you quessing about the real identity of the murderer to the very end. Dick Powell is marvelous as a Philip Marlowe. In the film he gets the funniest lines and delivers them perfectly. Dmytyryks direction and visualisation of the story beats most of the film noir-genre by miles. Darkness, shadows, visual innovations and very Lynchesque dream sequence shows that Dmyty... read more

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This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely' has private eye Philip Marlowe hired by Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expected as his initially promising enquiries lead to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one's motivation is obvious, least of all Marlowe's.

Release date: 22 February 1945
UPC: 053939675429

Tags: Film Noir (8), 1940s (8), Thriller (6), Crime (6), Detective (5), 1944 (5), Jealousy (3), Necklace (3), Blackmail (3), Doctor (3), Photograph (3), Blindness (3), Drama (2), Mystery (2), Usa (2), Murder (2), Infidelity (2), Black & White (2), Based On Novel (2), Pistol Whip (2)

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