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Murder, My Sweet

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Murder, My Sweet
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NR,1hr 35min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
December 9, 1944
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Distributor:
RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Starring:
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley  ...more
Synopsis: One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's old girl friend, Marlowe is pitched headlong into a morass of intrigue and deception. The participants include duplicitous glamour-girl Claire Trevor, sodden slattern Esther Howard, suave blackmailer Otto ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Edward Dmytryk's sharp, skillfully made noir arguably captures the wit and verbal fluency of Raymond Chandler's style more faithfully than any of the other films made from his books. One of the key early noirs, it revived the career of Powell, who was by then eager to escape his choir-boy image. Through the use of voice-over narration, the film is able to retain the writer's vision of rot beneath the ... Full Review
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Dick Powell
Philip Marlowe
Claire Trevor
Mrs. Grayle, Velma/Mrs. Grayle
Anne Shirley
Ann Grayle
Otto Kruger
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