Marlowe returns: da “Murder, My Sweet” a “Farewell, My Lovely” by Adriano Piccardi

“…Dick Richards’s “Farewell My Lovely” (1975) is a remake of – but not only – Edward Dmytryk’s film, “Murder, My Sweet” (1944). This essay explores the dialogue between Richards’s film and two texts, as well as between classical and modern cinema. …”
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Notorious: Hitchcock’s good neighbor film Notorious: Hitchcock’s good neighbor film by Arlindo Castro

“…If they happened to go to Radio City Music Hall, Notorious would reassure them that the U.S. was doing well in preventing obstinate Nazis from making an atomic bomb, though at that moment of the nuclear espionage war, former Manhattan Project insider Klaus Fuchs had actually passed on to a Soviet contact in London classified information about the Manhattan Project and American atomic plans.2 Indeed, in that transitional period between World War II and
 the Cold War, the major political villains were still Nazis, not
 Communists, as exemplified by other 1946 films like Orson Welles’ The Stranger, Charles Vidor’s Gilda, and Edward Dmytryk’s Cornered.…”
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