A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that bel...
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayn...
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine i...
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating l...
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant a...
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missin...
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after ...
A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his...
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while repres...
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...