在这部聪明的菲利浦喜剧/犯罪片中,男主角私家侦探菲利普·马尔洛夫是位在大都市主持正义的浪漫牛仔，他正直，不轻信，工作努力。对罪犯穷追不舍，虽多次出错但终能找出真相，他受尽磨难，被罪犯打有时甚至被警察揍，在这个充斥暴力和猜疑，贪赃枉法的社会，钱可以收买一切，只有他绝不妥协。
Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city. He is honest, skeptical and hardworking. He toils away on the cases that he solves after numerous mistakes, while often being tormented and beaten up by criminals and even the police. In this world of violence, mistrust and corruption, everything is for sale. Everything except him.
