Noir City: Murder, My Sweet
February 17, 2025
Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell), quintessential L.A. private eye, searches for an ex-con’s girlfriend, but winds up swimming in deceit and double-crosses. A brilliant evocation of novelist Raymond Chandler’s favorite corrupt city, featuring tempting Claire Trevor as the femme fatale, a role that re-vamped her career.
Due to unforeseen technical challenges, all scheduled 35mm Noir City screenings will now be presented digitally.
Passes: $158 | $133 SIFF Members
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Philip Marlowe, the quintessential L.A. private eye, searches for an ex-con’s girlfriend, but, as always, winds up swimming in deceit and double-crosses, all of it washing up at a lavish Malibu beach house. A brilliant studio-lot evocation of Raymond Chandler’s favorite corrupt city, featuring former hoofer Dick Powell in a career-transforming turn as Marlowe, and tempting Claire Trevor as the fabulous femme fatale, a role that re-vamped her career and set the template for so many vixens to come. Featuring a vivid supporting cast, Murder, My Sweet earns plenty of votes as the best adaptation ever of a Chandler novel. Note courtesy of Noir City.
- Director: Edward Dmytryk
- Principal Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
- Country: USA
- Year: 1944
- Running Time: 95 min.
- Producer: Adrian Scott
- Screenplay: John Paxton
- Cinematographers: Harry J. Wild
- Editors: Joseph Noriega
- Music: Roy Webb
- Filmography: Mirage (1965), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Crossfire (1947)
- Language: English
- Format: 35mm
- US Distributor: Warner Bros.