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).He introduced himself as "an old friend of Peter""s" - she admitted that their relationship was "complicated" and that they were currently broken-up.Both Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper were co-stars and co-scripters, while Fonda produced, and 32 year old Hopper directed (his first effort)...His only escape may be to purge the fixation").Bruce invited love interest Dr.Meridian to Gotham""s Charity Circus event held at the Hippodrome.At the circus (a charity for the Children""s Hospital) attended by Gotham""s richest and finest (and largest single donor Bruce Wayne, accompanied by Chase Meridian), the aerial-acrobatic family, named The Flying Graysons (in colorful red and green outfits with yellow capes), performed in the center ring.