Murder, My Sweet
Warner Archive Collection (series)
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 28, 2014
- Originally Released: 1944
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dick Powell, Claire Trevor & Anne Shirley | |
| Performer: | Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander, Douglas Walton, Ralf Harolde, Esther Howard & Shimen Ruskin | |
| Directed by | Edward Dmytryk | |
| Edited by | Joseph Noriega | |
| Screenwriting by | John Paxton | |
| Composition by | Roy Webb | |
| Cinematography by | Harry J. Wild | |
| Story by | Raymond Chandler | |
| Produced by | Adrian Scott |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: A+ --
Murder, My Sweet (1944) was to be released with the original title of its literary source, writer Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely, although it was changed so that fans of 30s song-and-dance star Dick Powell...
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: 3/4 --
What really fills out the film is Dmytryk's jazzy application of Orson Welles's RKO set-design.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: B+ --
Offers a delirious blend of violence, drug-induced hallucinations, and sexuality.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
Powell is glib and great in one of the best hard boilers ever.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 5/5 --
Possibly the best attempt at bring Raymond Chandler to the screen.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Treats us to some savory snatches of dialogue in the best noir tradition.
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Creative Loafing
From its strongly accented camera angles and darkness-drenched nighttime action to the hardboiled narration of a cynical Los Angeles gumshoe outfitted in trenchcoat and fedora, Murder, My Sweet is pure Detective Noir 101.
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DVDJournal.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma.
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