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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