Mark, re your comment below:
"Jim, while I pretty much agree with your definitions of noir
and
hardboiled, I have to nit-pick about one thing. The great
Murder My
Sweet was not the first time Farewell My Lovely was filmed.
It was
shot earlier as The Falcon Takes Over. American Movie
Classics
occasionally runs it (along with others in the Falcon
series)."
True enough, but I never said *Murder, My Sweet* was the
first film
version of *Farewell, My Lovely*. I said it was the first
Philip
Marlowe film. *The Falcon Takes Over* (in which I understand
Ward
Bond does a decent job in the Moose Malloy role) featured
George
Sanders as Michael Arlen's the Falcon, not Chandler's
Marlowe.
Similarly, the fourth Marlowe film, *The Brasher Doubloon*,
which
featured George Montgomery as Marlowe, was not the first
film version
of *The High Window*. The first film version was a Mike
Shayne movie,
the title of which escapes me at the moment, in which Brett
Halliday's
character was played by Lloyd Nolan. - Jim Doherty
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