Howard Hawks	...	(Réalisateur)
Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner	...	(Scénariste)
Lauren Bacall	...	Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
Trevor Bardette	...
Humphrey Bogart	...	Philip Marlowe
Charles D. Brown	...	Norris (Sternwood's butler)
Tanis Chandler	...
John Ridgely	...	Eddie Mars
Martha Vickers	...	Carmen Sternwood
Dorothy Malone	...	Acme Bookstore proprietress
Peggy Knudsen	...	Mona Mars
Regis Toomey	...	Chief Insp. Bernie Ohls (District Attorney's Office)
Charles Waldron	...	Gen. Sternwood
Bob Steele	...	Lash Canino
Elisha Cook Jr.	...	Harry Jones
Louis Jean Heydt	...	Joe Brody
Pat Clark	...	Mona Mars (scenes deleted)
James Flavin	...	Capt. Cronjager (scenes deleted)
Thomas E. Jackson	...	Dist. Atty. White (scenes deleted)

Commentaires: The type of man she hated . . . was the type she wanted !

Résumé: Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's favoured employee who has left with a mobster's wife. Each of the problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes.