I only viewed the first flick, Murder My Sweet. Agree with
your comments in general. I didn't care for Dick Powell --
not hb enough and tried to do a "Thin Man" characterization.
Mazurky was dead-on for Moose. Also, when Marlowe drives into
the canyon to get slugged, was that a soundtrack to horses
galloping away when the deer is startled?
Ed Lynskey
--- Brian Thornton <
tieresias@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Murder My Sweet (1944) This film adaptation of
"Farewell My
> Lovely" was
> ably directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starred Dick
Powell in a
> marked career
> change (he had previously been a song and dance man)
as Philip
>
> Marlowe. Powell played Marlowe with a light touch,
making his
> trademark
> sardonic comments more comic than sardonic. Mike
Mazurky
> played Moose
> Malloy as if the part were written for him. The film
was
> fairly faithful
> to the book, with exceptions like the fact that
Florian's bar
> in the book
> has been sold to a black proprietor, and the patrons
Malloy
> beats up early
> on are also black (they were all white in the film).
The
> pacing is good,
> Claire Trevor is fabulous as Velma, but the cops and
villains
> (particularly
> Otto Kruger, a sleep-walking hack if ever there was
one, as
> Jules Amthor)
> were just plain dull.
>
> Thoughts, fellow Avians?
>
> Brian
>
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