Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murder, My Sweet" is another happy product of Hollywood's new policy of providing basically grade B detective yarns with skilled directors and adequate budgets to turn out entertaining, if unsophisticated screen fare. Although "Murder, My Sweet" does not measure up to the high standard set by "Laura"--which it seeks to imitate--it is nevertheless a welcome and wholesale relief from the sagas of bullets and blackjacks so long advertised as "second...
...will accuse "Murder, My Sweet" of being cinematic art, but perhaps Hollywood has less trouble with pure entertainment than with art. In spite of its faults, if not for them, the production must be classed among the rightful box-office successes of the year...
True Confessions (current circ. 1,795,000) 'is now as straight-laced as a temperance speaker's corset. For two years no one between its covers has given birth to an illegitimate child, or even been seduced. The siren never wins the sweet young thing's husband; the crooked lawyer never does Honest John out of his inheritance; every last confession ends in an odor of uplift...
Murder, My Sweet (Dick Powell, Claire Trevor; TIME...
...Holy and sweet is my emotion...