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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 6, 2004
MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Country USA
Studio RKO Pictures
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Other Titles
• Murder, My Sweet
• Farewell My Lovely
• Leb' wohl, Liebling (1989)
• Mord, mein Liebling (1989)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir, Drama, Detectives, Suspense, Femme Fatale, Murder, Investigation, Blackmail
Tagline: An Original Philip Marlowe Mystery
Plot: Director Edward Dmytryk put himself on the map with this impressionistic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective novel FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. It was also a big turning point in the career of Dick Powell, who before this film was known only as a young male lead in countless musicals opposite Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell. Here he shows grittiness and snap as the hard-boiled detective Phillip Marlowe, who finds himself ensnared in an elaborate net of murder and deceit. At the center of the mystery is a missing jade necklace and a dim-witted but dangerous thug named Moose (Mike Mazurki) who's hired Marlowe to find his lost girlfriend, Velma. In one memorable sequence, Marlowe finds himself vividly hallucinating after waking from a drug-induced stupor. He also gets beaten up and later seduced by a mysterious hard-as-nails blonde (Claire Trevor). Otto Kruger, Miles Mander, Anne Shirley, and Ralf Harolde are but a few of the interesting faces in the cast. Film noir doesn't get much blacker or more enjoyable than this moody classic.
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| Cast |
Dick Powell
The Bad and the Beautiful, 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 | | Anne Shirley
The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stella Dallas, Three on a Match | | Mike Mazurki
Some Like It Hot, Donovan's Reef, Cheyenne Autumn | Miles Mander
To Be or Not to Be, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray | Douglas Walton
Bride of Frankenstein, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
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Roy Webb
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Notorious, Out of the Past |
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