Farewell My Lovely (Murder My Sweet) (1944)

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Chandler's legendary private detective Phillip Marlowe is brought moodily to life in a film that epitomises the very soul of film noir. There’s plenty of sharp, wisecracking dialogue, cynicism, a twisting, complex plot involving bribery, perjury and theft, very little daylight and plenty of shadows, both in lighting and in people’s souls. This was the film that changed Dick Powell’s screen persona from a crooner to a tough guy with his portrayal of Marlowe, a detective hired by Moose Malloy - a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch - to look for his former girlfriend, Velma, who hasn’t been seen for six years.

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Review by Barry Forshaw on 16th April 2007

Review of Murder My Sweet and Double Indemnity.
Raymond Chandler always felt that the best screen version of his tough, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe was Dick Powell in this wonderful version of Chandler’s novel Farewell My Lovely, something that surprises those who know the Humphrey Bogart incarnation in Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep. But it's true that (as Chandler perceived) Powell looks like a man who can play chess as well as pack a gun, and is a more intelligent Marlowe. In the same package, Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity needs absolutely no recommendation, while a very cherishable batch from Universal also includes such Robert Mitchum gems as The Big Steal, directed by Don Siegel (a minor piece, but one to be seen).

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