"[to Berger] At first I thought you're a faggot, but you're just a piece of shit, 'cause you can't respect the santity! The woman of your soldiering friend is sacred, got it?! You lined up an exepmtion from the army, you smartass, but you'd die on the first day of service. In the army everything's simple - wives are in homes, whores are behind the fence and you've gotta be a human, not a rag!"

"Kuba Berger: [to Lt. Arek] Sir? How is it 'round here?"

"[to a drunkie abusing his woman] YOU LIE HERE, UNTIL I GO! LIED, you should have!"

"So you, Miss, are Kroll's sister... You, madam, are his wife... And you are his best friend... Now I understand him."

"I don't wanna talk with ya."

"[to Kroll]] You ran away to kill? You ran away to forgive. To believe that you've got a wonderful and loyal wife - that's what you wanted. But she turned out to be a whore. A man always wants to believe in that when he has a woman."

"We don't care about it - a piece is a piece."

"[to Berger] We've been friends for 15 years. We've been doing everything together. And now we even fuck the same woman."

"[to his wife Agata] I should've killed you. And when he fucks you next time, you can think it's me."

"Don't say anything we couldn't be able to forget. You owe him it, Kroll. (...) It's only 329 days."

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

"Ralf Harolde - Dr. Sonderborg"

"Ralph Dunn - detective"

"Esther Howard - Jessie Florian"

"Mike Mazurki - Moose Malloy"

"Miles Mander - Mr. Grayle"

"Don Douglas - Police Lt. Randall"

"George Anderson - detective"

"Douglas Walton - Lindsay Marriott"

"Two-fisted, Hardboiled, Terrific!"

"An original Philip Marlowe mystery"

"Dick Powell - Philip Marlowe"

"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!"

"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."

"Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle/Velma Valento"

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

"Anne Shirley - Ann Grayle"

"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."

"'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."

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

"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."

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

"Otto Kruger - Jules Amthor"

"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."

"Chili Williams - Marcy"

"Regis Toomey - Police Capt. Fields"

"Whit Bissell - Murderer"

"Curt Conway - Spider"

"Marsha Hunt - Ann Martin"

"John Ireland - Fantail"

"Cliff Clark - Gates"

"Raymond Burr - Rick Coyle"

"Dennis O'Keefe - Joseph Emmett (Joe) Sullivan"

"Claire Trevor - Pat Cameron"

"Kate Schott as Lori Randolph"

"Raye Richards as Lola 5"