Film noir ranks ... of the classic noir. Out of all of Chandler's adaptations, Murder, My Sweet is considered to be one of the author's best, effectively capturing the dark ambiance and a cynical ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.