Farewell, My Lovely

Private detective Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is being interrogated by police lieutenant Randall (Don Douglas) about two murders. He tells how he was hired by menacing Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Velma Valento, a former girlfriend of whom Moose lost track while serving eight years in prison. The next morning the suave Lindsay Marriott (Douglas Walton) turns up at his office, offering $100 if he will act as his bodyguard when he goes to a secluded canyon as a go-between to pay a ransom for some stolen jewels. The money is gone, and Marriott has been