Humphrey bogart wav files4/12/2023 ![]() Powell tossed off the tired, contemptuous, yet biting Raymond Chandler wisecracks and insults with superbly underplayed style.” ![]() Everson, in his book, The Detective in Film, suggests that “Powell - because the realistic conception of the private eye was relatively new, and because Powell was totally new to it - became Marlowe far more easily than Bogart, who had several other competing images working against him: the gangster image, Sam Spade, Rick from Casablanca. In fact, Powell’s previous image actually may have helped since nobody had great expectations. But Powell nabbed the role of Marlowe in 1944’s Murder, My Sweet and never looked back. He was turned down for the lead in Double Indemnity (Paramount, 1944) because director, Billy Wilder thought the public would never buy Powell as anything but a lightweight song-and-dance man. I‘ve always thought Dick Powell, the first screen Philip Marlowe, was also the best.
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