Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe
- Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
- John Ridgely as Eddie Mars
- Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood
- Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars
- Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls
- Charles Waldron as General Sternwood
- Charles D. Brown as Norris
- Bob Steele as Lash Canino
- Elisha Cook, Jr. as Harry Jones
- Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody
- Dorothy Malone as Acme Bookstore proprietress
- Sonia Darrin as Agnes Lowzier, the salesgirl at A.J. Geiger bookstore (uncredited)
- Ben Welden as Pete, Mars' flunky (uncredited)
- Tom Fadden as Sidney, Mars' flunky (uncredited)
- Trevor Bardette as Art Huck (uncredited)
- Theodore von Eltz as Arthur Gwynn Geiger (uncredited)
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“But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor,
Unburied, cast on the wide earth,
Limbs that we left in the house of Circe,
Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”