Chain-smoking, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe drives a buddy
from LA to the Tijuana border and returns home to an apartment full of cops
who arrest him for abetting the murder of his friend's wife. After Marlowe's
release, following the reported suicide in Mexico of his friend, a beautiful
woman hires him to locate her alcoholic and mercurial husband. Then, a
hoodlum and his muscle visit to tell Marlowe that he owes $350,000, mob
money the dead friend took to Mexico. Marlowe tails the hood, who goes to
the house of the woman with the temperamental husband. As Marlowe pulls
these threads together, his values emerge from beneath the cavalier
wisecracking.