Wald arrives and a heated confrontation between the women reveals that Orfamay knew about Orrin's blackmailing scheme and was expecting some money from it. Marlowe catches Orfamay searching his home and tells her he has destroyed the photographs and negatives. However the police are not fooled, and the irate Lieutenant in charge resolves to have Marlowe’s private detective license revoked. To protect Wald's reputation, Marlowe makes it look as if Steelgrave committed suicide. She tells him she killed Steelgrave because he had her brother killed. Marlowe finds Steelgrave dead, and Wald disconsolate. During their ride Marlowe learns that Dolores and Steelgrave had been romantically involved. He gets a visit from Dolores, who tells him Wald wants to see him at the mobster Steelgrave’s home. Marlowe returns to his office and burns the photos and negatives. Now closely connected to another death, Marlowe is only able to keep the police at bay with a promise to solve the cases. Marlowe gets his wound tended to by Dolores. This makes Marlowe certain that Orrin was the blackmailer, who later killed Clausen and Hicks because they knew details of the blackmail scheme. Marlowe finds a photograph that reveals that Orfamay, Orrin and Wald are siblings. He hears gunshots and stumbles upon the dying Orrin, who has just enough strength to stab Marlowe with an ice pick, however not seriously. Marlowe comes to during the night and, still groggy, searches the clinic. Marlowe then goes to the clinic and confronts the doctor, who tranquilizes him with a drugged cigarette but otherwise does not harm him. Marlowe questions Wald again, and from what he learns is able to clear her and Steelgrave of the murders. He contacts an executive from Wald's hit TV show and secures a contract to work in her best interest. Vincent Lagardie, a connection Marlowe already knew of. Orfamay tells Marlowe her brother is staying at the clinic of Dr. Steelgrave makes several attempts to assault, scare or buy Marlowe off the case but they are all unsuccessful, resulting only in the death of an erudite Steelgrave henchman. He offers Wald his help, but she rejects it. In private, Marlowe tells Wald his suspicion that she was at the hotel where Hicks was killed to pay him off, in return for the photos. Marlowe calls on Wald, and while waiting to speak to her meets Wald’s friend, exotic dancer Dolores Gonzales. Marlowe realizes that the murders stemmed from an initial attempt at blackmail. She is television star Mavis Wald, and the photos are of her in a passionate rendezvous with the mobster boss Steelgrave, who has moved his operation west. Marlowe recalls that years earlier a crime gang in Brooklyn led by mobster Sonny Steelgrave had perfected a technique for killing its enemies with an ice pick, but they agree the connection is tenuous. He tells some of what happened to the police, but keeps the most important information to himself. When he recovers, Marlowe searches the room and finds a claim ticket for a roll of photographs. A masked, armed woman comes up behind Marlowe and knocks him out and flees. When Marlowe gets to his location he finds Hicks dead with an ice pick buried in his neck. Soon afterwards Hicks phones Marlowe to hire him to hold onto something for a day or two. Returning downstairs he comes across the dead body of desk clerk, Haven Clausen, killed with an ice pick. Marlowe searches Orrin's former hotel room and interviews the shady hotel guest, Grant Hicks, he finds there. Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe has been hired by Orfamay Quest, a young woman from Kansas, to find her brother, Orrin. The supporting cast includes Bruce Lee, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, Carroll O'Connor and Jackie Coogan. Directed by Paul Bogart, the film was written by Stirling Silliphant based on Chandler's 1949 novel The Little Sister. Marlowe is a 1969 American neo-noir film starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe.
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