Film Noir, July 8

The FILM NOIR series at Coos Bay Public Library continues on Sunday, July 10th at 4:00. This month’s feature “MURDER, MY SWEET” marked the 1944 screen debut of author Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled, world-weary detective Philip Marlowe. In this adaptation of Chandler’s novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’, gumshoe Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven year stretch, to find his former girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for the last six years. He’s also hired by a foppish gent named Lindsay Marriott who wants Marlowe to accompany him to retrieve a stolen jade necklace. Marlowe tags along to a midnight meeting in the woods, but someone saps him on the back of the head. When he wakes up, Marriott is dead. He discovers that the stolen necklace belonged to the cool femme fatale Helen Grayle (Clare Trevor), leading to a complex web of deceit involving bribery, perjury and theft, and where no one’s motivation is obvious. The Film Noir series continues on August 25th and will be held on the third Sunday of the month. Everyone is welcome at this free program sponsored by The Friends of Coos Bay Public Library. Please call 269-1101 or visit coosbaylibrary.org for further information about this program.