Film, Television & Radio Adaptations
This novel was dramatized for television in 1954 on the anthology series Climax!, with Dick Powell playing Marlowe as he had a decade earlier in the film Murder, My Sweet. This live telecast is notorious for an incident in which actor Tris Coffin, whose character had just died, thought he was out of camera range, and stood up and walked away, while in view of the entire home audience.
In 1973, Robert Altman filmed an adaptation set in contemporary Los Angeles, with Elliott Gould as Marlowe.
The novel was produced for radio by BBC Radio 4 on 16 January 1978, with Ed Bishop as Marlowe and again on 1 October 2011 with Toby Stephens as Marlowe as part of their 'Classic Chandler' series.
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