Number 101 on IMDb's Top 250
Private-eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's youngest daughter, Carmen, who has fallen into bad company and is likely to do some damage to herself and her family before long. He soon finds himself falling in love with her older sister, Vivien, who initially takes a deep dislike to Mr Marlowe. However, the plot thickens when murder follows murder...Hilarity ensues...
Trivia: The scene where Bogart and Lauren Bacall make suggestive talk about horses was added almost a year after filming was otherwise complete, in an attempt to inject the film with the kind of risqué innuendos that had made To Have And Have Not (1944), and Bacall, so popular a few years earlier. Director Howard Hawks and star Humphrey Bogart got into an argument as to whether one of the characters was murdered or committed suicide. They sent a wire to author Raymond Chandler asking him to settle the issue, but he replied that he didn't know either. The question is left unresolved in the original novel by Chandler.
The cover says it all...Bogart and Bacall. Only Tracy and Hepburn could even compare in the world of hollyworld.
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