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Title: Mitchum at his best
Review: Compared to Dick Powell's Philip Marlowe ("Murder, My Sweet"), Robert Mitchum hits most of the right notes with Raymond Chandler's classic noir character. The plot was adjusted, as was a lot of the language, but all the basics of noir were there: dark shadows, seamy characters and scenes, and characters, especially Marlowe, caught up in a series of events they don't quite understand and cannot control. Charlotte Rampling is terrific as the bored wife of an elderly, wealthy man.
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