Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
- based on novel or book
- gambling
- poison
- blackmail
- detective
- drug addiction
- sister
- film noir
- murder
- private investigator
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Humphrey Bogart
Philip Marlowe
Lauren Bacall
Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
John Ridgely
Eddie Mars
Martha Vickers
Carmen Sternwood
- Louis Jean Heydt — Joe Brody
- Charles Waldron — General Sternwood
- Regis Toomey — Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls
- Sonia Darrin — Agnes Lowzier (uncredited)
- Elisha Cook Jr. — Harry Jones
- Bob Steele — Lash Canino
- Dorothy Malone — Acme Bookstore Proprietress
- Peggy Knudsen — Mona Mars
- Charles D. Brown — Norris the Butler
- Trevor Bardette — Art Huck (uncredited)
- Joy Barlow — Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,171 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
