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This one of my popular movies. Years ago I rented a VHS of it and made a dupe at home. The quality was lousy but I liked it and played it often, but I learned my lession about making unauthorized copies. My daughter’s puppy urinated all over the tape. This movie is so well-behaved it even survived that.
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This is classic noir, with Phillip Marlowe. The position is about stolen jade, hidden identities, blackmail, worship, treachery and assassinate. The epic is complicated, the casting is enormous, the photography and voice-over narration carry things along. It has style. The ending is satisfying. And the dialogue is some of the best ever written.
Powell broke through into serious roles with this film. Even in all the singing roles he had up to this movie he exuded cocky confidence, and that aspect of his personality is perfect here. As an aside, if you savor his singing movies, and I do, examine how he can smile naturally while singing; that’s hard.
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Claire Trevor, it seems to me, almost always played bruised roses (Stagecoach, Key Largo) or rotting orchids. You cared about her because she was one of life’s losers, or you wanted to go to bed with her even bright you might not wake up in the morning. The scene when we (and Marlowe) first meet her is unprejudiced as respectable as the scene when MacMurray first meets Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.
Mike Mazurki as Moose Malloy is vast, probably the best role he ever had. He was no actor, but he is effective and sympathetic as a itsy-bitsy pyscho who genuinely is in love; he’s starring in his bear version of Romeo and Velma.
One of the key ingredients in making this movie work is the dialogue. Quantities of it must have been lifted verbatim from Farewell, My Sparkling. When Moose talks about Velma being “cute as lace panties” the imagery is quick-witted. Raymond Chandler, in my concept, is the best author of private survey mysteries yet. If you haven’t read him, dive in. Ross Macdonald and Hammett approach cessation, but it’s no three-way tie.
Look the movie. Read the book.
The DVD transfer is first rate. There’s a commentary by a fellow named Alain Silver which is adequate, and not vital to enjoying the film.
Dick Powell makes a pretty Philip Marlowe in this shapely film noir. The film is based on Raymond Chandler’s “Farewell, My Fair,” which marks the second appearance of Marlowe in print. The book was actually adapted once before for an entry in the Falcon series (“The Falcon Takes Over”), which featured George Sanders. That film, however, simply adapted the station of “Farewell, My Resplendent” for the Falcon series; hence, the character is named Overjoyed Lawrence, not Philip Marlowe. So in conclude, “Abolish, My Sweet” is the first mask appearance of Philip Marlowe. In addition, “The Falcon Takes Over” is a decent but lightweight thriller – not the noir classic of “Slay, My Sweet.”
The residence is typically convoluted for a film noir written by Chandler. Marlowe, a somewhat down-on-his-luck private detective, is approached by Moose Malloy, a giant of a man who has fair been released from the pokey and is searching for his ex-girlfriend. He reluctantly accepts the case. However, before he can design headway, Marlowe gets a second client, the effete Lindsay Marriott who wants Marlowe to accompany him on a unhurried night pay-off. These two cases expeditiously become enmeshed and lead to numerous complications and murders.
“Abolish, My Sweet” is suited film noir in every intention. Director Edward Dmytryk (The Caine Mutiny, Crossfire) was one of the best noir film makers of all time, and he uses the conventions of the genre (shadows and new lighting, hard-boiled dialogue) with splendid subtlety. The cast is also unbelievable – lead by Powell as Marlowe. Arguably, Humphrey Bogart was a more forceful Marlowe two years later in “The Gargantuan Sleep.” However, Powell is convincing as the straight-shooting but somewhat desperate detective. Furthermore, he’s joined by femme fatale Claire Trevor, who is always terrific in this type of hard-bitten role. Screenwriter John Paxton adapted Chandler’s fresh – managing to place some of the best bits, such as Marlowe’s encounter with Mrs. Florian (“She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud”) . All of the elements really reach together for one of the finest noirs ever made, and this DVD transfer is solid.
DVD extras: The unusual theatrical trailer and an informational, but somewhat lifeless commentary by Alain Silver, who is a film producer and has written several books on film noir.
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