Robert Mitchum reprised the role of Marlowe in the remade UK classic mysteryThe Big Sleep (1978), with the setting transferred from a 1940s Los Angeles o an updated 1970s London.You""re the playwright.Listen, when somebody writes a play, they decide where the highs are, where the lows are.Right? Now you do it.And you may not be high where they""re high in the writing.You may not be low where they""re low in the writing.You may be high on ""but."" You may be high on ""and."" Of course, they were doin"" it for dough.(The scene segued to Michael""sfifthaudition on another bare stage)They were doin"" it for dough - the same as everybody does it for dough.The American expatriate hero (a falsely-accused former cat burglar) has to catch the real cat burglar (a ""she-cat"") during a rash of robberies before he is caught himself, while the heroine is on a quest to ""catch"" him - first as the burglar, and then as a husband.Her family""s mansion used to occupy the site of his club: "It might interest you to know why I come here.