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The Projection Booth Podcast

Episode 390: Murder My Sweet (1944)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

We continue our #Noirvember2018 coverage with the first in a trio of Raymond Chandler adaptations -- Edward Dymytrk’s Murder My Sweet. Based on the second of Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels, Farewell My Lovely, the film stars Dick Powell "as you've never seen him before."

Terry Frost and Eric Cohen join Mike to discuss the 1944 film and the 1976 adaptation. Tom Williams, the author of A Mysterious Something in the Light; the Life of Raymond Chandler, provides insight on Chandler's career in and out of Hollywood.
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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.6

Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.

0:07.0

I'll make a statement.

0:09.9

The boys tell me I did a couple of murders.

0:12.0

Anything in it?

0:12.7

I think you better let me have it.

0:14.5

Bung in your book.

0:48.4

Yeah. The If I hadn't been in my office that night,

0:51.8

when my brain cells playing hide-and-seek with those dizzy flashes down the street,

0:54.2

I'd have never got messed up with a stolen jade necklace. I've never hired a detective before. What are the rates? As much as the

1:00.1

traffic will bear? When can you start? I've already started. Well, this looked like something

1:05.4

to rub your palms about. But my client's lovely stepdaughter had other ideas. What did she ask you to do?

1:12.0

She wanted me to kiss her and find a jade necklace.

1:14.3

Whatever she was willing to pay you, I'll up it.

1:17.3

Just stay away from her.

1:18.7

Forget the whole thing.

1:20.5

It sounded screwy, but it's a fine thing.

1:23.8

I always follow through on a sale, even if it pays dividends in a bulk of skull.

1:29.6

I didn't see what hit me. I didn't have to. The first thing I knew, I found myself heaped

1:34.4

on a bed like a bag of bones ready for the scrap heap. My throat was dry, my hands felt like a bunch

1:40.2

of bananas. I couldn't stand on my pen. Okay, I said to myself,

1:45.3

you're a tough guy.

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