Has anyone else but me ever noticed a major continuity glitch during the climactic beachhouse confrontation between all the principal cast members of `Murder, My Sweet'? After an embrace, Claire Trevor pulls a gun on Dick Powell. Although we don't actually see her do it, she says she retrieved it from his breast pocket (`You should never kiss a girl with a gun in your breastpocket. It leaves such a bruise.'). Yet minutes later, after the arrival of Anne Shirley and her father, Trevor tells the latter to go get Powell's gun from his breast pocket. Surely, he wasn't carrying two there! I do like `Murder, My Sweet' as well as anyone, even though it does get a little too talky, and the plot is complex enough without all the additional loose ends (just what did Moose do for Velma that put him in jail for 8 years?) and `cinemamistakes.' On the other hand, perhaps these are what keep the movie so fascinating upon repeat viewings. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen it over the years and on the new DVD release, it looks better than it ever has before.
Review of Murder, My Sweet
