Director : Howard Hawks
Release Date : 31 August 1946 (USA)
Genre : Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe , Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge , John Ridgely as Eddie Mars , Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood , Dorothy Malone as Acme Bookstore proprietress , Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars , Regis Toomey as Chief Insp. Bernie Ohls (District Attorney's Office) , Charles Waldron as Gen. Sternwood , Charles D. Brown as Norris (Sternwood's butler) , Bob Steele as Lash Canino , Elisha Cook Jr. as Harry Jones , Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody rest of cast listed alphabetically: , Pat Clark as Mona Mars (scenes deleted), James Flavin as Capt. Cronjager (scenes deleted), Thomas E. Jackson as Dist. Atty. White (scenes deleted)
Plot : Private spy Philip Marlowe is hired by a chic family. Before the multifarious case is over, he’s acknowledged murder, blackmail, furthermore no matter what could engagement love.
Run Time : 114 min | 116 min (pre-release version)
Country : USA
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Language : English
Filming Locations : Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Company : Warner Bros. Pictures
Trivia : Nina Foch verified as the role of “Carmen.”
Goofs : Continuity: When the station wagon pulls out of the alley at the rear of Giegers textbook store, the crates broaden history the motorcar body plus are on the trail gate. When the station wagon pulls wakeful to the Randall Arms plus pulls into the alley, the crates are at present absolutely in the body of the car.
Tag Lines : The type of man she hated . . . was the type she wanted !
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Plot Summary : Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is solicit to handle numerous snags that are worrying his family. Marlowe finds that each dilemma centers almost about the disappearance of Sternwood’s favoured recruit who has disappeared also a mobster’s wife. Each of the snags becomes a refuge as something also since Marlowe probes.
Private-eye Philip Marlowe is hired to take an contemplate on General Sternwood’s infant daughter, Carmen, who has fallen into horrific agency plus is potential to do sundry harm to herself plus her school prior long. He rapidly finds himself crumpling attachment and her more experienced sister, Vivien, who principally eliminates a deep detest to Mr Marlowe. However, the design thickens while murder follows murder…
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