After looking up at the bloody ceiling, "John" found himself in a bed in the living room of the Elm Street house where he same little girl from Maggie""s dream was asking: "Play with me.Singer Dick Powell was cast against type as the down-and-out, tough-talking, cynical PI Philip Marlowe - often making sarcastic, irreverent and disdainful comments about his predicament.All night, I walk the city, watching the people go by.I try to sing a little ditty, but all that comes out is a sigh.The street looks very frightening, the rain begins and then comes lightning.It seems love""s gone to pot, I""d rather have the blues than what I""ve got...In a snide, sneering mood, the driver, Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) [with a deliberately forceful, pounding, hard phallic name] reveals that he is returning to Los Angeles.]:Bartender: All any of these dames owe me is a night""s work, one night at a time.They come and go like flies.Bannion: Only this fly got herself strangled.Bartender: These things happen, Sergeant.Outside of my place, some of these babes keep pretty shady company.It figures.They know nobody cares much what happens to ""em...They don""t stay long enough to make friends....If I ask for an address, they lie.It""s not worth he bother.They""re floaters, not much more than a suitcase full of nothin"" between them and the gutter.Bannion is led around in circles by the "double-talk"ing bartender: "You oughta be doin"" radio commercials.She followed a trail of Dylan""s sleeping pills, laid out like Hansel and Gretel""s breadcrumbs, taking her to Dylan""s room.