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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

Certificate: Passed

One might think that this would mean that the movie was off to a bad start, especially since the chief reason for the title change was that the actor who was cast in the hard-boiled lead, Dick Powell, was best known as a singer. When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies. Crime "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation on June 11, 1945 with Dick Powell and Claire Trevor reprising their film roles.

For the scene in which Marlowe is drugged, Edward Dmytryk showed Dick Powell falling through a sea of faces.

When the studio changed the title to "Murder My Sweet", box-office receipts picked up considerably. This expensive Italian make was typically sold as a chassis, with the owner selecting a custom body by a selected coach builder.

Certificate: Passed In a 1946 "Saturday Evening Post" article, Dick Powell wrote that the film was the result of his ten-year effort to escape musicals.

When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder. Naturally, there is no such address, but Descanso Drive does exist. 'Murder, My Sweet' tones down some of the racial and sexual aspects of the original story (which are included in the 1970s remake), and I'm might be mistaken (it's been a while since I read it), but the Anne Shirley character appears to have been created as a potential love interest for Dick Powell. As things turned out, the film was a huge hit and Powell changed his screen image forever, from crooner to tough guy, and enjoyed an upturn in his career as a result. Comments about this movie. As to the movie itself, it has become for many the definitive film noir. After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. Use the HTML below. After escaping from the asylum Marlowe finds himself at 2300 West Descanso Street. With Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger. Dick Powell, who was desperate to change his screen image, lobbied hard but unsuccessfully for the role of Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (1944), but Paramount went with contract player Fred MacMurray. Philip Marlowe's gun is a Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless .32-cal. Marlowe makes a joke, saying that he has another suit under the mattress. It featured an inline eight-cylinder engine and four-wheel brakes. This film did well at the box office, earning RKO a profit of $597,000 ($8.3M in 2017) according to studio records.

Certificate: Passed

1942 Cadillac Fleetwood 75. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. After years of insipid golly-gee roles, Dick Powell startled his fans with his cynical, world-weary portrayal of Philip Marlowe. 1931 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A.

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

The checkered suit worn by Mike Mazurki was previously worn by Victor McLaglen in Call Out the Marines (1942). This 1944 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, had its title changed so that audiences wouldn't mistake it for a musical! It was hard to get Mike Mazurki to tower over Dick Powell, because the former singer stood 6'2", with Mazurki--a former pro wrestler--only slightly taller at 6' 4-1/2".

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