"Private detective Philip Marlowe's hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love."
Here Bogart plays that other iconic private detective (previously depicted by Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet, a few years earlier), from the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name. The joke goes that no one can really follow the plot of this film, because how it all plays out technically makes no sense, but that doesn't keep us from enjoying the journey. Director Howard Hawks infuses some screwball romance into the mix with, the real-life wife of the star, Lauren Bacall, but he would never make another noir after this one. For more Bogie & Bacall noir see: Dark Passage. The 1978 version, with Robert Mitchum, is also currently available on Hoopla.
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