I'll just put my card here on the table." I do all that for a few pounds. And maybe just...
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Charlotte Sternwood:
[when Marlowe declines to blackmail her]
Wha-? You don't want money? Philip Marlowe:
Oh sure. All I itch for is money. I'm so greedy that for fifty pounds a day plus expenses on the day I work, I risk my future, the hatred of the cops, of Eddie Mars and his pals, I dodge bullets and put up with slaps and say "Thank you very much. If you have any further trouble please call me: I'll just put my card here on the table." I do all that for a few pounds. And maybe just a little bit to protect what little pride a sick and broken old man has in his family, so that he can believe his blood is not poisoned. That his little girls - though they may be a trifle wild - are not perverts and killers
[when Marlowe declines to blackmail her]
Wha-? You don't want money? Philip Marlowe:
Oh sure. All I itch for is money. I'm so greedy that for fifty pounds a day plus expenses on the day I work, I risk my future, the hatred of the cops, of Eddie Mars and his pals, I dodge bullets and put up with slaps and say "Thank you very much. If you have any further trouble please call me: I'll just put my card here on the table." I do all that for a few pounds. And maybe just a little bit to protect what little pride a sick and broken old man has in his family, so that he can believe his blood is not poisoned. That his little girls - though they may be a trifle wild - are not perverts and killers
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You don't want money
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Oh sure
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All I itch for is money
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I'm so greedy that for 50 a day plus expenses on the days I work
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I risk my future the hatred of the cops of Eddie Mars and his pals
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I dodge bullets put up with saps and say thank you very much
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if you have any further trouble please call me I'll just put my card on the table
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I do all that for a few pounds And maybe just a bit to
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protect what little pride a sick and broken old man has in his family
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so that he can believe that his blood is not poison
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that his little girls though they may be a trifle wild are not perverts and killers
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Movie Summary
Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
Actors
Charlotte Sternwood
Philip Marlowe
