Plot SynopsisUnder the opening company logo and titles, the film opened in wartime Los Angeles.The disorienting opening shot was of a blinding ceiling light and sounds of accusatory voices in a dark shadowy room, and then soon after, a pull-back camera movement revealed the side of the face of tough yet vulnerable, blindfolded gumshoe detective Philip Marlowe (played by 30s musical crooner Powell in a dramatic role switch).No) when they removed their scuba gear.As they searched for the explosives in their tent, their shadow-figures were witnessed by sickened guards who wondered if she was really pulling things out of Austin's behind (including a gerbil!).Your grandfather - he died in Australia in a penal colony.And your father, he was a good man too.Bad accident that.And your mother?Sean: She's dead.America, when I was twelve.Father Lonergan: (piously) I'll remember her in the mass tomorrow, Sean.(sternly) You'll be there, seven o'clock.Sean: Sure I will.In one of the film's most fanciful, breathtaking, painterly scenes of the picturesque, pastoral Irish countryside (and the entrance scene for the film's star actress), Sean walks to an emerald-green grassy area of foliage where black-faced sheep are herded by a collie.(Stern mechanically raises his glass slightly)Stern: Is that all?Schindler: I'm trying to thank you.I'm saying I couldn't have done his without you.The usual thing would be to acknowledge my gratitude.It would also, by the way, be the courteous thing.Stern: (in a hollow tone) You're welcome.(Schindler finishes both drinks)Schindler's girlfriend, Victoria Klonowska (Malgoscha Gebel), wearing his silk robe covering her slip, answers the door of his apartment early one morning.