该片是由迪克·理查兹执导的悬疑片,于1975年上映，主要讲述了:This,. the second adaptatio.n of R.aymond Chand.ler's novel, is mu.ch clo.ser to the source .text than the original - Mu.rder, .My Sweet (1944), whic.h tended to avoid some of t.he sleazier parts of the. pl.ot - but still .concerns private eye Phi.lip Marlowe's attempts t.o locate Velma, a .former dancer at a seedy. nightclu.b and the girlf.rie.nd of .Moose Malloy., a petty criminal ju.st out. of prison. .Marlowe finds that. once .he has taken the c.ase, events conspire to put. him i.n dangerous situation.s, and he is forced to foll.ow a confusing trail of .unt.ruths and doubl.e-crosses before he is a.ble to locate Velma.