Both tales were adapted from Raymond Chandler""s 1940 hard-boiled novel - a superb, complex, shadowy, wisting film noir of murder, corruption, blackmail, double-cross and double identity, with witty dialogue and cynical, descriptive, terse and evocative voice-over narration, wisecracks, and highly-quotable one-liners.David: My dear young lady, I""m not losing my temper.I""m merely trying o play some golf.Susan: Well, you choose the funniest places.This is a parking lot.David: Will you get out of my car?Susan: Will you get off my running board?David: This ismyrunning board!While insisting that the car is his and he wishes to drive his own car, Huxley is driven away on the running board of he car as he yells to his receding golf partner in the distance:I""ll be with you in a minute, Mr.Hildy remembers heir honeymoon (or lack thereof) well:Hildy: All I know is that instead of two weeks in Atlantic City with my bridegroom, I spent two weeks in a coal mine with John Krupsky.Head-shaved ex-scientist Mr.Freeze was outfitted in a clear silver-cryo suit with a high-tech, ice-blasting bazooka in his hands: "The Iceman Cometh" (one of many one-liners).