Farewell, My Lovely

Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his old girlfriend Velma Valento, whom he has not seen in seven years while he has been in prison. Using a photo supplied by Velma's old nightclub friend Tommy Ray, Marlowe traces her to an insane asylum in Camarillo, but when he breaks the news to Malloy, he discovers that he had been given a photo of a different woman. Meanwhile, a man named Lindsay Marriott hires Marlowe to accompany him to a rendezvous where he is to pay $15,000 ransom for the return of a valuable fei tsui jade necklace stolen from an unnamed female friend.