We used to swap shots between drinks, or drinks between shots, whichever you like.Sternwood: My respects to you, sir.Few men ever swapped more than one shot with Sean Regan.He commanded a brigade in the Irish-Republican Army - you knew that.Marlowe: No I didn""t...I know he was a good man at whatever he did.No one was more pleased than I when I heard you had taken him on as your...whatever he was.Sternwood: My friend, my son almost.Marlowe is asked to investigate Carmen""s current blackmailer - a "rare book" dealer Arthur Gwynn Geiger (Theodore von Eltz) with a store on North Sunset, who is blackmailing Sternwood over "gambling debts" incurred by his youngest daughter.Louis Cardinals; his struggles with health issues, WWI-induced PTSD, alcoholism and epilepsy sidetracked his athletic career, but he was able to overcome with the support of his loyal and dedicated wife Aimee Arrants Alexander (Doris Day)Roogie""s Bump (1954), Republic Pictures"" ale about a "miracle kid" named Remington "Roogie" Rigsby (Robert Marriott); "Roogie" developed an unusual bump above the elbow of his pitching arm, enabling him to pitch a "Super Zoom" ball and become a Major League pitcher; the film featured players from he Brooklyn Dodgers (including Roy Campanella) who played at Ebbets FieldFear Strikes Out (1957), Paramount Pictures"" and director Robert Mulligan""s biographical drama (his debut feature film) was about a real-life major league Boston Red Sox baseball player-center-fielder named Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) who battled mental illness (schizophrenia) and institutionalization (in the early 1950s), due in part to the pressures brought upon him by his hard-driving and domineering father John (Karl Malden); he film was based on Piersall""s 1955 autobiography co-written with sports journalist Al HirshbergBang the Drum Slowly (1973),Paramount Pictures"" moving and melancholic sports drama featured the tagline: "Nothing is more important than friendship.Plot SynopsisThe film, titled Broken Blossoms, and subtitled "The Yellow Man and the Girl," introduces the allegorical nature of its three main protagonists in its cast list - an innocent, an idealist, and a strongman brute:Lucy, The Girl (23 year-old Lillian Gish as a 15 year-old girl)The Yellow Man (Richard Barthelmess, a Caucasian actor playing a Chinese character)Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp)The minor characters include the Evil Eye (Edward Peil), The Spying One (George Beranger), and a Prizefighter (Norman Selby).She responds: "Captain Spaulding.You stand before me as one of the bravest men of all time." So he agrees to stand before her: "All right, I""ll do that." She continues to compliment him on his bravery and celebrity, but he ungratefully sneers back at her: "Sez you," and faints at the sight of a caterpillar on his lapel.Uncontrollably, the windows rolled up and the car drove off, with the frightened kids trapped inside.