This successful adaptation of Chandler's 1939 novel was from his first Philip Marlowe novel.[Chandler took segments of two of his own, previously-published stories that appeared inBlack Maskmagazine: "Killer in the Rain," and "The Curtain.He is led from the train into an ancestral past - to an open, single horse drawn carriage by a spritely, derby-hatted, pipe-smoking, elfin Michaeleen Oge Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald), the local taxi-cab driver, book-maker, and match-maker.With a misleading title for the morality tale about he venomous American class system, some viewers thought it was a western; in fact, the film's title expresses the code name for a "male hustler" - the self-professed occupation of one of the characters, a slow-witted, fringe-jacketed Texan dishwasher transplanted to the big, apathetic city of New York to hopefully become a high-paid street gigolo.Doctor: Yep.Farmer: How long would you reckon I have? You know, you can tell me.Doctor: A year, maybe a year.(Linda's voice-over): He knew he was gonna die.He knew there was nothing there could be done.You're only on this Earth once.And, to my opinion, as long as you're around, we should have it nice.Wandering around after chasing peacocks with Linda, Abby suddenly finds herself close to the owner's house - and the owner suddenly pokes up in the field in front of her and asks: "Where are you from?" and "Where do you go from here?" She shrugs: "All over.