Playback

Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles Raymond Chandlers hard-drinking wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the worlds most famous fictional detectives. "Playback" finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes trouble seems to follow. But shes easy on the eye and Marlowes happy to do as hes told all in the name of chivalry of course. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoons snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail lies mistaken identity - and murder...