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42nd Street review by A customer from London

The quintessential Depression-era musical 8 April 2006
...génue must take her place. The film also served as a springboard to stardom for Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Ginger Rogers. While it is corny, silly and melodramatic, has ... Read customer review

Murder, My Sweet. Farewell, My Lovely review by ChesterDent from London, England

You shouldn't kiss a girl when you're wearing that gun. 23 March 2007
...ed as Farewell My Lovely; this a good adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel. Dick Powell's transisiton from light comedy crooner to Marlowe produces a version which is ... Read customer review

Dick Powell - filmography

Sink The Bismarck! on DVD (1960)
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter
Director: Lewis Gilbert, Dick Powell
Certificate:
The story of one of World War II's most furious sea battles is brought to the screen in this exciting, semi documentary style movie. In the spring of 1941, Nazi Germany's greatest battleship the Bismarck, scourge of Atlantic shipping, is pinned down at her anchorage in Norway. Making a break for ..read more »

72% from 1,494 member

The Hunters on DVD (1958)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner
Director: Dick Powell
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This classic war film features the talents of Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner. Mitchum is Major Cleve Saville and Wagner is Lt. Ed Pell, two pilots with differing demeanours. Mitchum is more reserved, while Wagner is cockier. Amidst the drama of war, romance rears its head, giving the soldiers ..read more »

60% from 276 members

Enemy Below on DVD (1957)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, David Hedison
Director: Dick Powell
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Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens star in this gripping World War II drama about an American destroyer and a German U-boat stalking each other at sea. As both men try to outthink and outmanoeuvre each other, the chase becomes a deadly game in which any mistake can bring instant defeat and death. ..read more »

69% from 923 members

The Conqueror on DVD (1956)
Starring: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz
Director: Dick Powell
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John Wayne plays Mongol chieftain Temujin, better known as Genghis Khan. The Mongolian warlord must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father, however the battle pales in comparison with Temujin's home life. He must attempt to woo the heart the heart of the red-haired Tartar prisoner ..read more »

56% from 246 members

It Happened Tomorrow on DVD (1946)
Starring: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
Director: René Clair
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Larry Stevens (Dick Powell) is an ambitious newspaper reporter in the late nineteenth century gaslight era of big city America. Eager to scoop his competitors, Stevens wishes that he could know the news before it happens. When a mysterious old man grants Stevens that power he advises the ambitious ..read more »

63% from 23 members

Cornered on DVD (1945)
Starring: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
The war's over but ex-POW Lt. Lawrence Gerard (Dick Powell) has a score to settle and he doesn't mean to do things by the book. His bride was in the French resistance; she was one of fifty freedom fighters murdered by shadowy Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac. People tell him that Jarnac's dead ..read more »

61% from 17 members

Murder, My Sweet. Farewell, My Lovely on DVD (1944)
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Moose Malloy, a petty crook just out of prison after a seven-year stretch, hires private eye Philip Marlowe to find his ex-girlfriend, Velma, who has not been seen for six years. The case is tougher than Marlowe expects as his initially promising leads degenerate into a complex web of deceit, ..read more »

73% from 626 members

Christmas in July on DVD (1940)
Starring: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew
Director: Preston Sturges
Certificate:
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves...

64% from 287 members

On The Avenue on DVD (1937)
Starring: Dick Powell, Alice Faye
Director: Roy del Ruth
Certificate:
Collection of eight classical musicals which includes: ON THE AVENUE, SUN VALLEY SERENADE, DADDY LONG LEGS, THE GANG'S ALL HERE, SECOND FIDDLE, ORCHESTA WIVES, DOLLY SISTERS, PIN UP GIRL.

59% from 48 members

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Starring: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Certificate:
Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market.

41% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Gold Diggers Of 1935 (1935)
Starring: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
Director: Busby Berkeley
Certificate:
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to marry the millionaire T. Mosely Thorpe, but Ann falls in love with Dick Curtis, while Dick's girl friend marries Ann's brother Humbolt. But the ..read more »

57% from 7 members
Currently unavailable

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Starring: James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Gary Cooper
Director: Max Reinhardt
Certificate:
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of foolish mortals, squabbling fairies and mismatched lovers. Most of the play takes place deep in the forest, where a quartet of human lovers have fled: Hermia and Demetrius, happily in love, do not wish to be split up by the law of their land. Hot on their ..read more »

52% from 24 members
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Footlight Parade (1933)
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Certificate:
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

63% from 20 members
Currently unavailable

42nd Street on DVD (1933)
Starring: Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Certificate:
The quintessential backstage musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, Pretty Lady. Others involved include ..read more »

67% from 939 members

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Starring: Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Certificate:
Your dream of perfect beauty comes true!

63% from 26 members
Currently unavailable

Dick Powell facts

5 most recent films

Sink The Bismarck! - 3.5 stars
The Hunters - 3.0 stars
Enemy Below - 3.5 stars
The Conqueror - 3.0 stars
It Happened Tomorrow - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Murder, My Sweet. Farewell, My Lovely - 3.5 stars
Sink The Bismarck! - 3.5 stars
Enemy Below - 3.5 stars
42nd Street - 3.5 stars
Christmas in July - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Gold Diggers of 1937 - 2.0 stars
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2.5 stars
Gold Diggers Of 1935 - 2.5 stars
Cornered - 3.0 stars
It Happened Tomorrow - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Mitchum - 3 times - show films
Ruby Keeler - 3 times - show films
Curt Jurgens - 2 times - show films
Joan Blondell - 2 times - show films
James Cagney - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lloyd Bacon - 3 times - show films
Edward Dmytryk - 2 times - show films
Busby Berkeley - 1 times - show films
Max Reinhardt - 1 times - show films
Mervyn LeRoy - 1 times - show films