After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Donald Douglas
- Police Lt. Randall
- (as Don Douglas)
Ernie Adams
- Bartender at 'Florian's'
- (uncredited)
Bernice Ahi
- Dancer at the 'Cocoanut Beach Club'
- (uncredited)
George Anderson
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Edward Biby
- Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Jack Carr
- Dr. Sonderborg's Assistant
- (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
- Police Clerk
- (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Sam Finn
- Headwaiter
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
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- TriviaFor the scene in which Marlowe is drugged, Edward Dmytryk showed Dick Powell falling through a sea of faces. He borrowed a trick from Saboteur (1942) by having the camera pull back from the actor to make it seem like he was falling. He also had the camera accelerate as it pulled back, to intensify the horror.
- GoofsIn the opening montage the men sitting around the interrogation table are not wearing hats. The camera zooms in on a reflection of the lamp on the glass table top but when it pulls back, all three other than Marlow are wearing hats.
- Quotes
Philip Marlowe: She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle.
- Alternate versionsExists in color-computerized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into American Cinema: Film Noir (1995)
Featured review
The best Marlowe film there is!
Probably the best Chandler adaptation there is. Dick Powell's Marlowe blows Bogart's clean out of the water, with a characterization much closer to Chandler's original. This Marlowe is a confused, sometimes naive, man trying to find his way in an emotionally and morally corrupt world. Claire Trevor's icy femme fatale is the controlling presence in the film making the men around her dance to her tune.
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- james.winn
- Oct 20, 2000
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Farewell, My Lovely
- Filming locations
- Sunset Tower Hotel - 8358 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, California, USA(apartment of Jules Amthor)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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