Directed by:
Edward DmytrykScreenplay:
John PaxtonCinematography:
Harry J. WildComposer:
Roy WebbCast:
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander, Douglas Walton, Ernie Adams, Donald Kerr, Fred Graham, Dewey Robinson (more)Plots(1)
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma. Sharply directed by Edward Dmytryk, Murder, My Sweet is film at its most noir, creating a moody sense of a world that never plays on the level. Cast against type, Dick Powell puts sunny crooner roles behind him, dishing hardboiled patter and wearing five-going-on-six-o'clock stubble so well that source author Raymond Chandler called Powell his favourite screen Marlowe. "I'm just a small businessman in a very messy business," the PI observes. With wit and trendsetting style to burn, it's never business as usual. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Dick Powell
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Claire Trevor
USA
Best movies:
The Mountain (1956)
Texas (1941)
Stagecoach (1939)
Anne Shirley
USA
Best movies:
City Girl (1930)
4 Devils (1928)
Stella Dallas (1937)
Otto Kruger
USA
Best movies:
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
High Noon (1952)
Saboteur (1942)
Mike Mazurki
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Miles Mander
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Madame Curie (1943)
Douglas Walton
Canada
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Ernie Adams
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Donald Kerr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Country (1958)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Fred Graham
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Dewey Robinson
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Scarlet Street (1945)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
John Indrisano
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Esther Howard
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
Born to Kill (1947)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Ralf Harolde
USA
Best movies:
Our Relations (1936)
Conquest (1937)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Donald Douglas
UK
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Gilda (1946)
Ralph Dunn
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Edward Biby
USA
Best movies:
The Kid (1921)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Paul Phillips
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Larry Wheat
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Jack Carr
USA
Best movies:
East of Eden (1955)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)