James Foley

After Dark, My Sweet is a 1990 American neo-noir film directed by James Foley and starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward.

more Norbert Davis , my first Chandler essay, Jim Thomson

, more Norbert Davis, my first Chandler essay, Jim Thomson’s After Dark my Sweet (book and movie),

in 1944, as Murder, My Sweet, featuring Dick Powell as Marlowe and directed by Edward Dmytryk

The novel had been adapted for the screen twice before: in 1942, as The Falcon Takes Over directed by Irving Reis and featuring George Sanders as The Falcon in place of Philip Marlowe; and in 1944, as Murder, My Sweet, featuring Dick Powell as Marlowe and directed by Edward Dmytryk.