General Sternwood assigns private detective Philip Marlowe to find his missing son-in-law and rid him of a shady individual named Geiger, who is blackmailing his daughter Carmen. Marlowe meets Carmen's sister, Vivian, who has gambling debts and is under the thumb of Eddie Mars, a casino owner. In a secluded house, the detective discovers Geiger's dead body and a completely drunk Carmen…
Gone with the riddle
“I never quite understood the story of the Deep sleep, Howard Hawks would later confess. The script was written in eight days. All we tried to do was make every scene as entertaining as possible. I was asked who killed so-and-so, I didn't know, we sent a cable to the author who didn't know either, then to the screenwriter who didn't know either!“In fact, when Marlowe-Bogart, in his famous drawling voice, gives the final word to the enigma, the spectator, lost along the way in his inextricable drawers, does not understand much either. But hypnotized from the first shot by the most sensual couple in the history of cinema, the mocking elegance of the dialogues and the class of the staging, he moves on to delight in this eternal black jewel.
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