Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

drama film, film noir, mystery film, crime thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 261 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private detective takes a case to find a missing woman and gets tangled in a web of crime and deception. He gets beaten up, meets dangerous people, and tries to survive in the criminal underworld.

darksuspensefulbroodingtwistynoir-ishgrittyatmosphericfast-paced

What happens

Murder, My Sweet (released as Farewell, My Lovely in the United Kingdom) is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley (in her final film before retirement). The film is based on Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely. It was the first film to feature Chandler's primary character, the hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe. Murder, My Sweet is, along with Double Indemnity (released five months prior), one of the first noir films, and a key influence in the development of the genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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