Released Date:
1975-08-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3940 Reviews)
Director:
Dick RichardsDavid Zelag Goodman (screenplay)
Raymond Chandler (novel)
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - Murder, My Sweet (1944), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma.
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