| Release Date: | Jan 1947 |
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| Genres: | Mystery / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Fantasy / Crime / Action |
| Cast: | Robert Montgomery (Philip Marlowe), Audrey Totter (Adrienne Fromsett), Lloyd Nolan (Lt. DeGarmot), Tom Tully (Police Captain Fergus K. Kane), Leon Ames (Derace Kingsby), Jayne Meadows (Mildred Haveland), Dick Simmons (Chris Lavery), Morris Ankrum (Eugene Grayson), Lila Leeds (Receptionist), William Roberts (Artist), Kathleen Lockhart (Mrs. Grayson), Ellay Mort (Chrystal Kingsby) |
The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.
