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Dick Powell as Marlowe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

My favorite fictional detectives are the erudite, snobbish Philo Vance and the sarcastic, sly Philip Marlowe. Both have been the subject of numerous films, but with middling results. Marlowe has been played by an unusual assortment of actors that includes Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, George Montgomery, James Garner, Elliott Gould, Robert Mitchum, and Liam Neeson. Bogart captured Marlowe\u2019s toughness. Garner projected the right amount of sarcasm. Mitchum exhibited the requisite amount of world-weariness. But none of them could compare to the cinema\u2019s first Philip Marlowe, as portrayed by Dick Powell in Edward Dmytryk\u2019s smashing film noir Murder, My Sweet<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Powell’s performance is all the more impressive when one considers his previous films were lighthearted musicals. Indeed, Powell\u2019s early success as a crooner stifled his acting career. (By the way, he had a pleasant voice; my Mom had several of his records.)  But Powell\u2019s career star status was dimming when RKO signed him to a contract. He still had enough clout to pick his own films and his first RKO effort was Murder,  My Sweet<\/i>. It was based on the second Marlowe novel Farewell, My Lovely<\/i>\u2014which was my father’s favorite book in the series (my second fave to The Lady in Lake<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Like all of Raymond Chandler\u2019s novels, the colorful characters and seedy, neon-lit atmosphere of 1940s Los Angeles overpower the complex plotting which intertwines two mysteries. In the first, a big homicidal lug named Moose Malloy hires Marlowe to find Velma, his former girlfriend. He hasn\u2019t seen her for eight years and it\u2019s been six since she wrote. Of course, Moose spent most of that time in prison–but he still pines for his sweet, little Velma and desperately wants to be with her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marlowe\u2019s second case seems even more straightforward. A well-dressed ne\u2019er-do-well named Lindsay Marriott wants Marlowe to accompany him on a midnight rendezvous to buy back a lady friend\u2019s stolen jade necklace. Unfortunately, the plan goes awry when Marlowe is knocked unconscious and awakes to find a pummeled dead body.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dick Powell and Claire Trevor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Powell\u2019s dynamic performance anchors the film, but he also benefits from some classic Chandler dialogue (often spoken in voiceover as Marlowe recounts his story to the police). When Marlowe finds a dead body, he quips: \u201cHe was just snapped\u2014the way a pretty girl would snap a stalk of celery.\u201d Velma\u2019s sleazy former employer is described as \u201ca charming, middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Edward Dmytryk was a promising director with a thin resume when he made Murder, My Sweet<\/i> and he put his all into the film. The pacing is swift, the atmosphere is appropriately sordid, and the visuals are stylish (e.g., when Marlowe is knocked unconscious, a black pool swallows up the frame). I met Dmytryk when he gave a guest lecture at Indiana University in the late 1970s. He wouldn\u2019t have mentioned Murder, My Sweet<\/i> if I hadn\u2019t asked a question about it. Most of his lecture centered on the years he was blacklisted  during the McCarthy era.<\/span><\/p>\n

Murder, My Sweet<\/i> holds up remarkably well as a classic film noir. It also marked a turning point in Powell\u2019s career. He followed it with the compelling, brutal Cornered<\/a> <\/i>and established himself as a dramatic actor. He went on to be become a successful film director and a television pioneer when he co-founded Four Star Studios in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the record, while Murder, My Sweet<\/i> was the first Marlowe movie, the novel Farewell, My Lovely<\/i> was adapted earlier as the “B” picture The Falcon Takes Over<\/a> <\/i>(1942). Philip Marlowe was nowhere in sight in this version. Instead, George Sanders starred as the debonair Gay Lawrence, who takes on Moose Malloy’s case.<\/p>\n\n

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