Don't let the obscurity of the title scare you away. A stolen gold coin brings Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private dick Philip Marlowe (Montgomery) into the employ of an eccentric and wealthy widow. While on the trail of the coin, he stumbles into blackmail and murder and suffers a
savage beating at the hands of Kortner, one of the weird creatures populating Chandler's off-center world. Finally, while trying to straighten out a blackmail scheme involving Bates's mad secretary, Guild--who is tied to her employer out of fear of being implicated in the murder of Bates's
husband--Montgomery puts the pieces of an illogical and complicated puzzle together to discover ...
Released:
1947
Rated:
NR
Length:
72 mins