Farewell My Lovely

In 1975, a Raymond Chandler's 1940 book Farewell, My Lovely was adapted into a movie. Everyone's favorite Private Detective Philip Marlowe is hired by an ex-con named Moose Malloy to find his missing girlfriend, Velma, while simultaneously investigating a murder connected with a missing jade necklace. Of course, both cases turn out to be connected, and Marlowe gets caught up in something far bigger than he imagined.

Tropes appearing in this film:

 * Film Noir
 * The Forties: It takes place in 1941.
 * Hardboiled Detective
 * Los Angeles
 * Private Eye Monologue: One of the best.