Murder, My Sweet

"She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle."

"I caught the blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom. I felt pretty good - like an amputated leg."

"'Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'"

"[about his gun] That's just part of my clothes. I hardly ever shoot anybody with it."

"Now this is beginning to make sense, in a screwy sort of a way. I get dragged in and get money shoved at me. I get pushed out and get money shoved at me. Everybody pushes me in, everybody pushes me out. Nobody wants me to DO anything. Okay, put a check in the mail. I cost a lot not to do anything. I get restless. Throw in a trip to Mexico."

"He was doubled up on his face in that bag-of-old-clothes position that always means the same thing: he had been killed by an amateur. Or, by somebody who wanted it to look like an amateur job. Nobody else would hit a man that many times with a sap."

"Skip the water. Make that one with scotch. It'll save time."

"I don't know what you talked him into. Was it murder or something serious?"

"You shouldn't kiss a girl when you're wearing that gun... leaves a bruise."

"Lt. Randall: You're not a detective, you're a slot machine. You'd slit your own throat for 6 bits plus tax."

"Haunted by a lovely face... hunted for another's crime!"

"A night of murder the police won't let him forget! The only key to his safety... a woman's face he can't remember!"

"Two-fisted, Hardboiled, Terrific!"

"An original Philip Marlowe mystery"

"Dick Powell - Philip Marlowe"

"Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle/Velma Valento"

"Anne Shirley - Ann Grayle"

"Otto Kruger - Jules Amthor"

"Mike Mazurki - Moose Malloy"

"Miles Mander - Mr. Grayle"

"Don Douglas - Police Lt. Randall"

"Douglas Walton - Lindsay Marriott"

"Ralf Harolde - Dr. Sonderborg"

"Esther Howard - Jessie Florian"

"Ernie Adams - bartender at "Florian's""

"George Anderson - detective"

"Ralph Dunn - detective"