What is Murder My Sweet / The Spiritualist about?

Name: Murder My Sweet / The Spiritualist
Genre: Drama,Horror

MURDER MY SWEET, 1944, Warners Bros., 95 min. Dir. Edward Dmytryk. Philip Marlowe, the quintessential L.A. private eye, searches for an ex-con's girlfriend, but, as always, winds up swimming in deceit and double-crosses, all of it washing up at a lavish Malibu beach house. A brilliant studio-lot evocation of Raymond Chandler's favorite corrupt city, featuring former hoofer Dick Powell in a career-transforming turn as Marlowe, and tempting Claire Trevor as the fabulous femme fatale. Earns plenty of votes as the best adaptation of a Chandler novel (Farewell, My Lovely). THE SPIRITUALIST (aka THE AMAZING MR. X), 1948, Sony Pictures, 78 min. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus. John Alton's finest B&W cinematography elevates to exhilarating heights this entertaining story of a phony psychic (Turhan Bey) insinuating himself into the L.A. cliffside mansion of a wealthy widow (Lynn Bari) and preying on both her and her impressionable daughter (Cathy O'Donnell).

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What is Murder My Sweet / The Spiritualist about?: MURDER MY SWEET, 1944, Warners Bros., 95 min. Dir. Edward Dmytryk. Philip Marlowe, the quintessential L.A. private eye, searches for an ex-con's girlfriend, but, as always, winds up swimming in deceit and double-crosses, all of it washing up at a lavish Malibu beach house. A brilliant studio-lot evocation of Raymond Chandler's favorite corrupt city, featuring former hoofer Dick Powell in a career-transforming turn as Marlowe, and tempting Claire Trevor as the fabulous femme fatale. Earns plenty of votes as the best adaptation of a Chandler novel (Farewell, My Lovely).

THE SPIRITUALIST (aka THE AMAZING MR. X), 1948, Sony Pictures, 78 min. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus. John Alton's finest B&W cinematography elevates to exhilarating heights this entertaining story of a phony psychic (Turhan Bey) insinuating himself into the L.A. cliffside mansion of a wealthy widow (Lynn Bari) and preying on both her and her impressionable daughter (Cathy O'Donnell).