{"product_id":"0888574113100","title":"Murder, My Sweet","description":"One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir \u003ci\u003eMurder My Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe,  the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's old girl friend, Marlowe is pitched headlong into a morass of intrigue and deception. The participants include duplicitous glamour-girl Claire Trevor, sodden slattern Esther Howard, suave blackmailer Otto Kruger and dyspeptic doctor Ralf Harolde. At one point, Marlowe is railroaded into a lunatic asylum, where under the influence of drugs he experiences a surrealistic nightmare the like of which would not be seen on screen again until Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e (1958). So fascinating are the \"bad\" characters in \u003ci\u003eMurder My Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e that the two 100% \"good\" characters, heroine Anne Shirley and detective Don Douglas, seem wishy-washy wimps by comparison. After years of insipid golly-gee roles, Dick Powell startled his fans with his cynical, world-weary portrayal of Philip Marlowe. The part put him back on top of the box-office tallies and enabled him to extend his acting career into the 1950s, which led to an even more lucrative \"third life\" as a powerful TV-studio executive. \u003ci\u003eMurder My Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e was based on Chandler's \u003ci\u003eFarewell My Lovely\u003c\/i\u003e, previously filmed in 1942 as \u003ci\u003eThe Falcon Takes Over\u003c\/i\u003e; a remake, \u003ci\u003eFarewell, My Lovely\u003c\/i\u003e, was produced in 1975, with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe.","brand":"ALLIED VAUGHN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440253407293,"sku":"0888574113100","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/0888574113100_p0.jpg?v=1771588086","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/0888574113100","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}