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Murder, My Sweet
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780646704
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780646703
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: RKO Radio Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: RKO Radio Pictures
MPN: DT6754D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: RKO Radio Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 1944
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Editorial Review:
Dick Powell will forever be known as a 1930s crooner in archetypal musical comedies, but this career-changing role shows Powell at his best and remains perhaps the most faithful cinematic representation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled hero, Philip Marlowe, ever put on screen. In this adaptation of Farewell, My Lovely, Powell's cynical, smart-talking private eye is hired by a dim ex-con (pug-nosed Mike Mazurki) to find his girl Velma, and by the prissy stooge of a blackmail victim to babysit him during a handoff. The meeting ends with the stooge's death, and Marlowe is immediately engaged by the owner of some jewels, the wily Mrs. Grayle (Claire Trevor), to recover them. As Marlowe navigates the dark, dangerous world of wartime L.A., splitting his search between high-society haunts and the cheap, smoky bars and flophouses of the inner city, he turns up one too many stones, winds up on the wrong end of a fist, and wakes up to a drug-induced nightmare that director Edward Dmytryk delivers with a mixture of surreal symbolism and sinister expressionism. Powell delivers screenwriter John Paxton's snappy lines and droll asides with hard-boiled cynicism, like someone not quite as tough as he talks; but it's Powell's innate vulnerability that makes this reluctant saint of the city so compelling. Dmytryk's shadowy style creates a visual equivalent to the web of intrigue Marlowe navigates, an almost perpetual world of night. One of the first great films noir and an often-overlooked detective-movie classic. --Sean Axmaker
"Murder My Sweet" based on the Raymond Chandler novel "Farewell My Lovely" featured a then controversial choice of Dick Powell to play the famous Philip Marlowe. Previously Dick Powell was known only for comedies and musicals so his appearance in a Film Noir DVD makes the Murder My Sweet DVD an especially unique choice for your mystery DVD collection and for those who enjoy collecting Raymond Chandler novel-turned-movie DVD's. Quick "Murder My Sweet" DVD Summery: His name is Phillip Marlowe and for the right price this private eye will follow an unfaithful husband find a missing bankroll or spy on a suspicious neighbor. When he's drawn into a complex web of murder blackmail and double-dealingthe result is the quintessential film-noir - the one that set the standard for the Film Noir genre. Complete your Film Noir DVD collection - Buy the "Murder My Sweet" now!Running Time: 95 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 053939675429
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Rating:  - Noir lite
A weak-chinned Dick Powell makes a decidedly lightweight Philip Marlowe in this moderately effective adaptation Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely." Powell doesn't have the physical presence for this role, nor does he convey the darkness and weariness in Marlowe's soul. Instead, he seems to be gadding about town, flitting through a succession of noir conventions on his way to the film's conclusion. A different actor might have improved this film considerably, since Powell appears in virtually ... Read More
Rating:  - Its About the Jade, [...]
Not all of the classic detective novelist Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowes are born equal. The definitive screen role is that of Humphrey Bogart in the Big Sleep. Dick Powell, however, here keeps pretty good company with his interpretation of Marlowe as the world-weary private detective who sees things through to the end, especially when he screws up an assignment. Its professional ethics, you know. That characteristic helped define the noir detective. Here Powell adds a little off-hand humor and self ... Read More
Rating:  - Murder, My Sweet
Edward Dmytryk's trim, crackling noir has enough twists and turns to befuddle most any snoop, but that's the whole fun of it. Powell's bravura tough guy turn as the original Marlowe (Bogie would follow him two years later in "The Big Sleep") opened up gritty new avenues for the actor, and the sultry Claire Trevor scorches the screen as femme fatale Helen Grayle. Packed with the patter of gunsels and molls in dimly lit, smoke-filled rooms, noir doesn't get much "noirer" than this. Hard-boiled mystery fans ... Read More
Rating: - Tracing a Missing Person
This is the film version of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely". It opens with Philip Marlowe being questioned by police detectives. It started when Marlowe was hired by Mike Malloy to look for an old girlfriend. Malloy had been away for years. Marlowe finds a dead end. Then a stranger hires Marlowe to ransom stolen jewelry. Marlowe is sapped, his client Marriott cannot speak. The police question him but Marlowe knows little. Then a reporter visits him to ask questions but Marlowe figures out the answers. ... Read More
Rating: - L.A. Wiseguy -
Philip Marlowe is the original American wise guy, like Bugs Bunny with gun, predating recent mafioso films and distinctly lone-wolf in style. No fraternal order of crimeys here, just a "slumming angel", as Ross MacDonald put it. Fascinating look at pre-war Los Angeles culture and viewpoints - before the city had any freeways, remember...
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