Tagline

• Nothing says goodbye like a bullet.

Plot Summary

Once he gets out of jail, Marlowe starts to conduct his own search when he discovers that mysterious blonde Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), who hired him to find her alcoholic novelist husband Roger (Sterling Hayden), lives on the same Malibu street as the absent Lennox and his deceased spouse. As numerous variations on the title song play in unexpected places, Marlowe encounters a shady doctor (Henry Gibson), a bottle-wielding gangster (director Mark Rydell), and a guard aping Barbara Stanwyck (among other stars), before heading to Mexico to stumble onto the truth once and for all.

Memorable Quotes

[Repeated Line] Philip Marlowe: It's okay with me.

Marty Augustine: Your friend was a murderer and a thief. 

Philip Marlowe: Who were the three DiMaggio brothers?