A classic 'noir' adaptation of Raymond Chandler's much-filmed novel. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) agrees to rid a wealthy family of a blackmailer who is threatening the younger daughter, but the man is killed before he can act. Drawn nevertheless into the Sternwood family's problems (not least because of his attraction to the elder sister, played by Lauren Bacall), Marlowe uncovers drugs, murder and more blackmail.
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Actor: Elisha Cook Jr
Actor: John Ridgely
Actor: Bob Steele
Editor: Christian Nyby
Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Howard Hawks
Actor: Charles D. Brown
Actor: Elisha Cook Jr.
Music: Max Steiner
Art Director: Carl Jules Weyl
Writer: William Faulkner
Writer: Jules Furthman
Writer: Leigh Brackett
Set Decoration: Fred M. MacLean
Costumes: Leah Rhodes
Special FX A/V: E. Roy Davidson
Special FX A/V: Warren E. Lynch
Actor: Lauren Bacall
Music: Leo F. Forbstein
Assistant Director: Chuck Hansen
Assistant Director: Robert Vreeland
Actor: Patricia Clarke
Actor: Charles Waldron
Writer: Raymond Chandler
Actor: Louis Jean Heydt
Actor: Peggy Knudsen
Actor: Sonia Darrin
Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Actor: Regis Toomey
Actor: Dorothy Malone
Actor: Martha Vickers
Actor: John Ridgeley
Character: Philip Marlowe