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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 09 December, 1944 DVD Release : 06 July, 2004 |
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Murder, My Sweet description 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 |
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| Not all 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 charcteristic helps define the noir detective. Here Powell adds a little off-hand humor and self-deprecation to the role as he fight for his concept of rough justice'. But mainly he is intrepid and that carries him a long way in the role. And suprsingly he gets the 'nice' girl in the end. Who would have thought.
Apparently not all classic Raymond Chandler novels are born equal either. The film here takes bits and pieces from various shorter stories written by Chandler earlier in his career as he was defining the Marlowe model to make the plotline run here. If you want to see a truer take on the original novel Farewell, My Lovely then you should see the remake from the 1980's starring Robert Mitchum. Here the story line runs more around the question of some jade lost by a wealthy woman who actions are central to a murder that occurs along the way. She, as is the order of things in noir films, is a man-trap who will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. And will succeed to a point. But do not forget that Marlowe has his own sense of honor so do not cross that line. See both films and judge for youself. |
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