Mark Hotel:He wouldn't tell me where Corinne was.He said she didn't want to see me.I can't believe that.He promised to bring her to the hotel [The St.Mark] if she'd come this evening.He said he knew she wouldn't.He promised to come himself if she didn't.Just then, Spade's less brainy partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) enters the room and is filled in on the details of Miss Wonderly's story:Miss Wonderly's sister ran away from New York with a fellow named Floyd Thursby.Riggs refused to leave his partner alone as they prepared to escape the blast by protecting themselves in the nearby cast-iron tub."In the next scene, the camera pans across from a decorated army uniform to a twin bed covered with books (Marco is portrayed as a voracious reader of the following books - "Diseases of Horses," "Ulysses," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Trial," "Wall Street: Men and Money," "Enemies of the State," and others ).Embittered by film's end, he tosses his tin star into the dirt of the dishonorable frontier town.One of the film posters described the theme of the deserted, lone marshal who stubbornly insisted on delaying his newly-married life with a pacifist Quaker wife (symbolic of US isolationists) in order to stay and confront his former nemesis and paroled murderer - Frank Miller:The story of a man who was too proud to run!Another slogan claimed: ".