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Director:
Writers:
John Paxton (screenplay)
Raymond Chandler (novel)
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Release Date:
9 December 1944 (USA) more
Tagline:
An Original Philip Marlowe Mystery more
Plot:
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel 'Farewell, My Lovely', renamed for the American market... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Christmas and new year TV films
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 18 December 2009, 5:30 AM, PST)

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The film certainly marked an astonishing transformation in its star... more (79 total)

Cast

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Dick Powell ... Philip Marlowe

Claire Trevor ... Mrs.Helen Grayle aka Velma Valento
Anne Shirley ... Ann Grayle

Otto Kruger ... Jules Amthor
Mike Mazurki ... Moose Malloy
Miles Mander ... Mr. Grayle
Douglas Walton ... Lindsay Marriott
Donald Douglas ... Police Lieutenant Randall (as Don Douglas)
Ralf Harolde ... Dr. Sonderborg
Esther Howard ... Jessie Florian
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Farewell My Lovely (UK)
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Runtime:
95 min | Germany:90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #10158) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Finland:K-15 (new rating: 2001) | Finland:K-16 (until 2001) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (tv rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1998)

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Audiences initially stayed away, thinking that "Farewell My Lovely", its original title, was yet another Dick Powell musical. When the studio changed the title to "Murder My Sweet", box office receipts picked up considerably. more
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Continuity: Lindsay Marriott's driver's license was issued 7/10/1942. According to the license, Marriott was born 5/5/1912. This would make him 30 at the time the license was issued, not 32 as is stated on the license. more
Quotes:
Lt. Randall: You're not a detective, you're a slot machine. You'd slit your own throat for 6 bits plus tax. more
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Referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994) more

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33 out of 40 people found the following review useful.
The film certainly marked an astonishing transformation in its star..., 23 April 2005
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There were many attempts to recreate on the screen Raymond Chandler's immortal character, Philip Marlowe, and probably the first serious effort was in 1944, with Edward Dmytryk directing… The film was called "Farewell My Lovely" in Britain and "Murder, My Sweet" in the United States…

The plot, as always with this genre, mattered far less than the characters and the action: it was sparked when Marlowe was hired to find an ex-convict's girl friend… This Marlowe was played by Dick Powell… He made a daring, successful effort to drop his all-singing, all-dancing image, and he was tough enough; but he was a little too charming, a shade too superficial, to suggest the depths and the strengths of the real Marlowe…

Humphrey Bogart was the man to do this above all others… And he did it superb1y in Howard Hawks' "The Big Sleep" in 1946…

"Murder My Sweet" is a complex thriller which seemed at the time to demonstrate all manner of strikingly new techniques in a film noir mood, and certainly marked an astonishing transformation in its star... Thirty years later, the second half has a jaded look...

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