
Murder, My Sweet is a movie directed by Edward Dmytryk in 1944 and based on the book Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, first published in 1940. The movie features Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander, and others.
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Storyline
Marlowe accepts a task to find Velma, Moose Malloy’s girlfriend. Velma hasn’t been seen in six years, and Malloy, a minor offender, was just released from prison after serving a seven-year sentence. A seemingly straightforward case of a missing individual, however, turns out to be much more complicated than Marlowe could have ever imagined as initially encouraging clues lead to a convoluted web of fraud, bribery, perjury, and theft in which no one’s purpose is obvious, least of all Marlowe’s.
Movie vs Book

Year
1944
Minutes
95
Movie Rate
7.50
Source: IMDb
Movie
Murder, My Sweet
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Country: USA
Year: 1944
Length: 1h35m
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Year
1940
Pages
304
Book Rate
8.26
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Book
Farewell, My Lovely
Author: Raymond Chandler
Country: USA
First published in: 1940
Length: 304 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Philip Marlowe
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