Murder, My Sweet overview
Synopsis:
One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's old girl friend, Marlowe is pitched headlong into a morass of intrigue and deception. The participants include duplicitous glamour-girl Claire Trevor, sodden slattern Esther Howard, suave blackmailer Otto Kruger and dyspeptic doctor Ralf Harolde. At one point, Marlowe is railroaded into a lunatic asylum, where under the influence of drugs he experiences a surrealistic nightmare the like of which would not be seen on screen again until Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
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Movie Details:
- Director: Edward Dmytryk
- Studio: RKO Pictures
- Year: 1944
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Mystery, Thriller
- Filmed in: Available in Colorized Version, B&W
