In this 1944 American Film Noir film the protagonist Phillip Marlowe is hired by Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma Valento since he was released from jail. As the story goes on Phillip is dragged into a bigger problem than he originally though. He witnesses a murder of someone trying to get back his jewelry. Then has Marlowe goes in deeper he sees there is more to the store then a lost girlfriend. Phil meets Helen Grayle his femme fatale who turns out to be Velma. She has coned an older man into marrying her and plans to kill him and take his money. He tries to stop it and in the end Moose, Mr. Grayle and Velma end up dying in an odd love triangle. But Marlowe ends up getting Ann Grayle the girl he has had his eye on since the beginning of the movie.