" [Note: Later in the film, Brody claimed it was six to seven months earlier, not a year.] Marlowe is called in to break up a troublesome blackmail ring that threatens o apply further pressure, ostensibly forcing Sternwood to pay legally-uncollectible gambling debts.The first was nasty, long blonde-haired henchman Karl Vreski (Alexander Godunov), who shot the front-desk officer and security guard...without a cane."In the shadows of the club""s rear fire escape steps, 19 year-old Susan Hunsecker (Susan Harrison), wearing an expensive mink coat, eagerly awaits her forbidden lover.In a similar camera movement (only reversed), when Willie steps up next to Mary on her father""s boat, the camera pans up and to the left to reveal Bill, Sr, shouting from his steering room toward his son to return to his own boat.After a long period of a debilitating pregnancy, she consulted with a long-time friend who died mysteriously, but had sent her a book about witchcraft - with suggestions that their Castevet neighbor Roman was the son of a famous martyred witch (warlock).