Drifter Fred C. Dobbs, down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his last bit of dough on a lottery ticket. Getting broke, he and fellow indigent Bob Curtin convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
The Big Sleep follows private detective Philip Marlowe as he is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood. Before the complex case is over, he’s seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
When WWI erupts, Rose, a prim English missionary, flees German East Africa in a small boat with Charlie Allnut, a scruffy, gin-guzzling trader. And they both plot to use the boat to attack a German warship.
New York City newspaper ‘The Day’ is in trouble. Now, in order to keep the paper from going out of business, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson must try to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.