Dick Powell is very good in MURDER, MY SWEET and is shabby in
the right way, but there's a scene in which he has only his
undershirt on (and his slacks, too) and a dame comes in and
starts to tell Powell/Marlowe how great looking he is, strong
and all that. And Powell really has this quite big belly and
rather thin arms! Even I have more muscles than Dick Powell.
It's a scene that I'd cut away from the movie or build Powell
some muscles with digital effects.
As for Cary Grant, I've been thinking about that for almost
20 years. (I read Chandler's letters while still 17 or 18.)
It's a pretty hard image, but I think Grant could've pulled
it off. He just couldn't have been so suave as he usually
was. Hey, James Stewart is a pretty tough noir guy in Anthony
Mann's westerns, and look at him in Capra's films.
Juri
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