Louis Jean Heydt

Complicated but sultry and witty, this film noir is the definitive Bogart/Bacall movie. Bogart is private eye Philip Marlowe who's hired to deal with the blackmailer of a general's daughter. Bacall is the protective older sister. There's murder, dark dealings and a sexual electricity between the two stars.

A preacher gives refuge to an outlaw, believing that the desperado can be reformed. Instead, the minister's wife and son are placed in near-fatal danger. An off-beat, original Western.