Across the street from the bookstore, Marlowe waits for Geiger to materialize, viewing the store from the front window of the Acme Book Store with a spectacled, antiquarian bookseller clerk (Dorothy Malone) who is quickly charmed:Clerk: Is there something I can do for you?Marlowe: Would you do me a very small favor?Clerk: I don""t know.[Note: In 2004, a new version of the film by producer-writer David Ayer adapted Peckinpah""s classic as a drug-heist hriller, and set the action in contemporary Mexico.By God, I told them the truth.They liked it or they didn""t like it.What had that to do with me? I old them the truth; I knew it for the truth then, and I know it for the truth now."Thranduil spoke to his Captain of the guard Tauriel about exterminating the ever-multiplying Great Spiders in Mirkwood Forest.