Raymond Chandler

The screen’s first Raymond Chandler adaptation. It takes the setup and principal characters of Chandler’s novel, Farewell, My Lovely, transplants the location to New York City, substitutes gentleman detective Gay Laurence (aka The Falcon), played by George Sanders, for Philip Marlowe, and grafts on a pair of sidekicks. The result underwhelms.

A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) entices an insurance agent (Fred MacMurray) to help her murder her husband.

Philip Marlowe’s big screen debut. A stylish adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely that sees Dick Powell play Marlowe, a private investigator hired by recent parolee ‘Moose’ Malloy, a giant thug played by Mike Mazurki, to find his girl Velma. The trail leads Marlowe to a sham psychic healer played by Otto Kruger, a wealthy mark, and his vampy wife played by Claire Trevor.

Private eye Bogart, hired to investigate a simple blackmail ploy, runs into a series of murders as he falls for Bacall, his client’s somewhat-bad-girl daughter who knows more than she’s letting on.

A tennis star (Farley Granger) meets a man (Robert Walker) on a train who innocuously proposes that they could each murder someone the other would like to have out of the way.

Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe (James Garner) investigates the disappearance of a young girl’s brother and an attempt to blackmail a television star.

A hulking ex-con hires detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) to track down his lost love Velma in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel.

While investigating a blackmail case, a private investigator finds pornography and murder.

Newly married private investigator Philip Marlowe finds corruption, blackmail, and murder in his new home of Poodle Springs.