Murder, My Sweet

Adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" puts hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe in the middle of a case involving blackmail and murder when he's hired by a hulking psychotic to find his missing girlfriend. Movie crooner Dick Powell is cast against type as Marlowe. The story was first filmed in 1942 (as "The Falcon Takes Over," with George Sanders), then was remade (as "Farewell, My Lovely," with Robert Mitchum) in 1975.