Suddenly, Marlowe was blackjacked with a sap into unconsciousness.[Note: The attacker was Helen Grayle - revealed in the finale!].He described how an inky blackness oozed over the frame and overtook him (thefirstof three instances):(voice-over) I caught the blackjack right behind my ear.Director Taylor Hackford""s remake, titledAgainst All Odds (1984), starring Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Rachel Ward (and with Jane Greer in a cameo role as the mother of her original character), was an inferior work.She was suddenly grabbed by the face and by the chest - and as she screamed and protested, he dunked her head into a sink filled with liquid nitrogen (shown from the sink POV), flash-freezing her face...If you loved me, you""d stop?""" She replied: "Not in a thousand years, to which he said: "That""s my girl.[The bright lights marquees and the plentiful sidewalk sex symbolically show the delicate balance between violence and promiscuous sex that he must drive through.