[Revisit Review]
Just like how Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely is a superior novel in all respects to his more famous novel The Big Sleep, Edward Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet is a superior film to Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946). Darker, moodier, and more cutting, Murder My Sweet may not have the sheer star power or quotability of Hawks' film, but it captures Chandler's vision better with amazing impressionist sequences that mimic Philip Marlowe's mindset--just take the sequence where he's being drugged by a corrupt doctor.
9/10
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