Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet released as Farewell, My Lovely in the United Kingdom is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley. The film is based on Raymond Chandlers 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely. A second film adaptation of the novel was made in 1975 and released under Chandlers title.

Temporarily blinded with his eyes bandaged, private detective Philip Marlowe Dick Powell is being interrogated by police lieutenant Randall Don Douglas about two murders.He tells how he was hired by menacing Moose Malloy Mike Mazurki to locate Velma Valento, a former girlfriend, whom Moose lost track of while serving eight years in prison. They go the night club where Velma last worked as a singer but the owner died years before and no one remembers her. Marlowe tracks down alcoholic widow Jessie Florian Esther Howard who claims not to know whats become of Velma. However Marlowe finds a photo of Velma she hid from him, and she then says Velma is dead. Later, from a safe distance, Marlowe observes a clearly disturbed Jessie make a phone call. ........

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