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Dick Powell as Marlowe.My favorite fictional detectives are the erudite, snobbish Philo Vance and the sarcastic, sly Philip Marlowe. Both have been the subject of numerous films, but with middling results. Marlowe has been played by an unusual assortment of actors that includes Humphrey Bogart, Robe read more

THE PAIRS THAT NEVER WERE: Esther Williams and Dick Powell On July 27, 2024 By CarolIn Uncategorized I love a good summer movie. And I love the many types of summer movies there are. I like a good summer mystery, a beach musical, a European sun-soak read more

Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming “Cry Danger” Cry Danger (1951) is an American film noir drama directed by Robert Parrish and starring Dick Powell, and Rhonda Fleming. The supporting cast includes Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey, and Jean Porter. Rocky Mulloy (Powell) wa read more

Dick Powell and Lizabeth Scott in “Pitfall” Pitfall (1948) is an American film noir drama directed by Andre de Toth and starring Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Wyatt. The supporting cast includes Ann Doran, John Litel, and Raymond Burr. Johnny Forbes (Powell) works for an in read more

Silver Screen Standards: Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944) The picture opens with a blinded Marlowe (Dick Powell) being questioned by the police about his involvement in a tangled web of crimes. Humphrey Bogart might be the most iconic version of Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective, read more

Silver Screen Standards: Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944) Humphrey Bogart might be the most iconic version of Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe, but Dick Powell gives a surprisingly perfect take on the character in the 1944 noir classic, Murder, My Sweet, adapted from read more

Dick Powell and Linda Darnell in “It Happened Tomorrow” It Happened Tomorrow (1944) is an American fantasy film directed by Rene Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, and Jack Oakie. This was Clair’s fourth of five films he made in Hollywood.Lawrence Stevens (P read more

First impressions suggest Dick Powell doesn’t fit the boots of a western hero as he did the fedoras of noir. Like Bogart or even Cagney, his physique isn’t imposing and yet he makes up for it with a wry wit. Running off his mouth as he often does fits the cynicism of noir. Not that it read more

Susan Slept Here features narration by an Oscar statue. The golden guy sounds just like I imagined he would: cheerful, uptight and betraying the vulnerability of a nude figure. The idea could be unbearably corny, but there's something pliable about the world of Frank Tashlin; Wile E. Coyote could sh read more

Share This!“She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud.  I gave her a drink.  She was a gal who’d take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle.” —a sample of Philip Marlowe’s narration Imagine Humphrey Bogart’s 1941 The Maltese Falcon with read more

Murder, My Sweet will never sparkle on the screen. It's made of muck and sleaze, and it'll stay that way, but it is darkly grand in a sharp new Blu-ray release from Warner Archive. This quintessential film noir was crooner Dick Powell's stab at another screen life. He knew he was getting too loose read more

Dick Powell in MRS. MIKE (1949) ~ A simple Canadian Romance 10/4/2014 10 Comments   This is the second of my two posts for the O CANADA BLOGATHON; read the first HERE,  if so inclined. You know what read more

Dick Powell in MRS. MIKE (1949) ~ A simple Canadian Romance 10/4/2014 10 Comments   This is the second of my two posts for the O CANADA BLOGATHON; read the first HERE,  if so inclined. You know what?  I just realised that w read more

Dick Powell was a huge success as a musical/comedy star in the 1930s.  But by the 1940s many considered him little more than an aging matinée idol, a perception he was sick of and intended on changing. [observation, 1936] “I’m not a kid anymore but I’m still playing boy scouts.R read more

Powell as Rex, with Joyce Holden as a "humanimal" who was a horse. 1. He once played a dog in a movie! In the 1951 comedy You Never Can Tell, a German Shepherd named King inherits a fortune following his eccentric owner's death--but then is swiftly murdered. The canine angel asks if he can ret read more

Dick Powell croons In Your Own Quiet Way in this charming scene from Stage Struck (1936). That's Joan Blondell camping it up as an untalented diva and Jean Madden, as the passing observer who doesn't like what she sees. read more