] The luggish, huge, brutish ex-con Malloy wanted to hire Marlowe for a job to find a missing long-lost love interest - although the detective brushed off the urgency of the client and suggested coming back the following day.Amen."The third epoch,the French story, is introduced with the turn of the page and another title card - characterized hroughout the film by a background with fleur de lis and a coat of arms:Another period of the past.Tens of thousands of men died here.The ravine down here was piled twelve deep with dead and wounded men.The little river below was swollen red, a raging torrent of blood.And that high hill yonder where Engineer Poelzig now lives, was the site of Fort Marmorus.He built his home on its very foundations.Marmorus, he greatest graveyard in the world.The tourist bus skids on the muddy road and goes off into a ravine.The coach overturns and the driver is killed in the accident.Joan is pulled unconscious from the wreckage and carried by Werdegast""s servant.The four travelers make their way on foot in the storm to the expected destination of the doctor, the cliff-top fortress-like home of renowned Austrian architect Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)."Russo: "He could have been white."Doyle: "Never trust anyone."After work, Doyle and Russo (posing as plainclothesmen) share a drink at an Eastside club, known as the Chez; the two stumble into a suspicious group of "greasers" and mob figures at a corner table: "That able is definitely wrong," surmises Doyle.