The Big Sleep

General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, buthe doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the darkside of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. Butthe Sternwood girls are a lot wilder than their old father realizes. They like men, drink, drugs - and it's not just a question ofblackmail.