
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)
Synopsis
Adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" puts hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe in the middle of a case involving blackmail and murder when he's hired by a hulking psychotic to find his missing girlfriend. Movie crooner Dick Powell is cast against type as Marlowe. The story was first filmed in 1942 (as "The Falcon Takes Over," with George Sanders), then was remade (as "Farewell, My Lovely," with Robert Mitchum) in 1975.
Directors
Edward Dmytryk, John Paxton, Adrian Scott, C. Bakaleinikoff
Production year
1944
Rating
TV-PG
Studio
Warner Bros.
Runtime
95 minutes
Cast
Dick Powell, Anne Shirley, Claire Trevor, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki