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.
Release Date: 8 August 1975Runtime: 95 min
Stars:
- Anthony Zerbe
- Burton Gilliam
- Charlotte Rampling
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Jack O'Halloran
- Jim Thompson
- Jimmy Archer
- Joe Spinell
- John Ireland
- John O'Leary
- Kate Murtagh
- Robert Mitchum
- Sylvester Stallone
- Sylvia Miles
- Walter McGinn
Director: Dick Richards
