You should see Dick Powell as Phillip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, 1944, another classic film noir.   Powell was great in films noir, even though his earlier film career was as a tenor in 1930s musical comedies!  He had a good TV drama show in the 1950s, too.

At 6:46 we get an early appearance by future Hollywood A-lister Dorothy Malone.

Bogart and Bacall did have great chemistry in their first film together (and Bacall’s screen premiere), To Have and Have Not, a fine movie that has been likened to Casablanca. They were also excellent together in Dark Passage and in Key Largo.
Fun Fact: Co-screenwriter for this was Leigh Brackett, one of the few female science-fiction writers in the early days of the genre. She finished her career by co writing the screenplay for the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strike Back. In the 1950s and 60s, she was very active writing teleplays for many top shows.

Bogart was used to performing on stage in New York long before he went to Hollywood.

The Novel is amazing. Raymond Chandler is one hell of a great writer.

Dick Powell also plays a great Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet (1944).

The plot on this movie was so complicated even the people making it didn't understand. They tried to get Raymond Chandler, the author of the books the Phillip Marlowe character was based on, to explain the plot. It had been so long since he wrote this story he didn't remember and couldn't help. It introduces a lot of characters that have no relation to the plot at all. I enjoyed it, though.

Elisha  Cook Jr [1903-1995] is  a  well known and  fine  character actor who was in dozens  of movies and TV  shows  for  decades. He  was in high  demand.

Martha Vickers was great in this as Carmen Sternwood.

I think you would love To Have and have not. Another great Bogart/Bacall film set during WWII. You are by far one of the best classic film reactors.

One of Bogart's, age 44, more popular movies is "To Have and Have Not."  In this famous  movie, once again helping the anti-Nazi underground,  he meets his very young 19-year-old future wife -- Lauren Bacall.  Talk about some hot sexy action.  Sparks were starting to fly in that movie -- and he eventually married her.  Great couple.

Chandler's Marlow appears in every scene of the movie just as he does on every page of the novels. People tend to get confused because they only know what Marlow knows since he's basically telling the story from his personal experiences and conversations. We don't know everything just as he doesn't know everything. Chandler's novels are among the very few mysteries that are considered literature. The closest thing we have to mystery literature today, in my opinion, are Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike novels. Galbraith is J.K. Rowling's pen name for this series.

Great reaction. I've seen this movie ten times and I still can't unravel all the plot twists, but the film noir atmosphere is amazing. I can tell you are obsessed with this genre. You'd love Double Indemnity, In a Lonely Place (Bogart) and Sunset Boulevard. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for doing this as a reaction and really glad you enjoyed this.

My favorite film noir is Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas and Jane Greer. It's worth a watch...

Mrs. Rutledge was a widow.

I love Chandler's writing and a lot of the dialog in this movie is exactly as he wrote it.  His narration is even better.   "From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."  23:15 The marriage of Vivien to Rutledge "didn't take."

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If anyone has questions regarding the plot, Hawks outlined it all in that massive biography.

Directed by Howard Hawks, by the way, one of the masters of the studio system Hollywood.  He made loads of movie in a variety of genres and created a number of great films.  Try His Girl Friday, one of the greatest comedies of all time.