Come Alone: A man on the phone tells Marlowe to come alone and unarmed. The movie shows a chalk outline drawn around the victim's body while the body is still on the floor. Chalk Outline: Malloy kills the new owner of Florian's when he proves uncooperative. The Cameo: Legendary pulp fiction novelist Jim Thompson appears briefly, as Mr. Had the bullet gone through it would have gone into the victim too. Bulletproof Human Shield: A variant, in one scene a man stops a woman being attacked by shooting the attacker in the back. "Basic Instinct" Legs-Crossing Parody: Helen makes a show of crossing and re-crossing her legs as she sits down opposite Marlowe, which he specifically notes when he moves to sit on the couch next to her and kiss her. Auto Erotica: Marlowe and Helen act on all that sexual tension in Marlowe's car by the beach. Adapted Out: The character Ann Riordan was eliminated from the film due to Robert Mitchum's age. This film is also the very first producing credit for Jerry Bruckheimer. Sylvester Stallone appears in a bit part, the year before he hit it big with Rocky. Harry Dean Stanton is Detective Rolfe of the LAPD. 
Of course, both cases turn out to be connected, and Marlowe gets caught up in something far bigger than he imagined.Ĭharlotte Rampling plays Velma/Helen, the mysterious Femme Fatale. Meanwhile, Marlowe also winds up investigating the murder of one of his clients, a guy named Marriott, who was involved with a missing jade necklace. Malloy hasn't even heard from Velma in six years, and Marlowe is reluctant to take the case, but Malloy is a mountain of a man (he makes Robert Mitchum look small!), and by sheer will makes Marlowe take the case.
Malloy, who has just gotten out of jail after serving seven years for bank robbery, hires Marlowe to find his missing girlfriend, Velma. Philip Marlowe ( Robert Mitchum) is out tracking down a runaway daughter when he encounters an ex-con named Moose Malloy (Jack O'Halloran). It is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely. Farewell, My Lovely is a 1975 film directed by Dick Richards.
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