After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Donald Douglas
- Police Lt. Randall
- (as Don Douglas)
Ernie Adams
- Bartender at 'Florian's'
- (uncredited)
Bernice Ahi
- Dancer at the 'Cocoanut Beach Club'
- (uncredited)
George Anderson
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Edward Biby
- Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Jack Carr
- Dr. Sonderborg's Assistant
- (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
- Police Clerk
- (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Sam Finn
- Headwaiter
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFor the scene in which Marlowe is drugged, Edward Dmytryk showed Dick Powell falling through a sea of faces. He borrowed a trick from Saboteur (1942) by having the camera pull back from the actor to make it seem like he was falling. He also had the camera accelerate as it pulled back, to intensify the horror.
- GoofsWhen Marlowe leaves the car to look for the person for the payoff, he draws his gun from his left pocket with his left hand and then replaces it in his left pocket. After he is sapped and wakes up, he draws it from his right pocket with his right hand. Later, when the police interrogation ends, he cleans up and he has an empty shoulder holster on his left shoulder and then puts his pistol in the holster as he leaves.
- Quotes
Philip Marlowe: She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle.
- Alternate versionsExists in color-computerized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)
Featured review
'Murder, My Sweet' is based on Raymond Chandler's classic detective novel 'Farewell, My Lovely'. The book was later filmed in the 1970s under its original title starring Robert Mitchum. The Mitchum version is actually more faithful, but for some reason nowhere near as entertaining. 'Murder, My Sweet' tones down some of the racial and sexual aspects of the original story (which are included in the 1970s remake), and I'm might be mistaken (it's been a while since I read it), but the Anne Shirley character appears to have been created as a potential love interest for Dick Powell. She seems to have been inspired by a similar character in 'Double Indemnity' (written by James M. Cain and filmed the same year with the help of Chandler). Dick Powell was originally a crooner and casting him as Philip Marlowe was a very strange choice at the time, but it certainly works. Personally I would have preferred to see Robert Mitchum playing Marlowe in this version, but by the 1970s he was too old for the part, and comparing the two versions Powell definitely wins. Claire Trevor is also excellent as one of the definitive noir femme fatales, and her scenes with Powell are compelling. The drug sequence is also very memorable. 'Murder, My Sweet' is one of the most entertaining detective thrillers ever made, and along with 'Double Indemnity' and 'Out Of The Past' one of the very best crime movies of the 1940s.
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- Also known as
- El enigma del collar
- Filming locations
- Sunset Tower Hotel - 8358 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California, USA(apartment of Jules Amthor)
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- Budget
- $400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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