Based on the novel by Raymond ChandlerScreenplay by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman
Directed by Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall
John Ridgely
Martha Vickers
Premiere date: August 23, 1946
Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood. Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen. This earns Marlowe the suspicion of Carmen's sloe-eyed, seemingly straight-laced older sister Vivian, who is fiercely protective of her somewhat addled sibling. As he pursues the case at hand, Marlowe gets mixed up in the murder of Arthur Geiger, a dealer in pornography. He also runs afoul of gambling-house proprietor Eddie Mars, who seems to have some sort of hold over the enigmatic Vivian.
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