Napoleon Whiting

Giant -- A wealthy Texan marries a strong-willed beautiful girl and their adjustments to life are interwoven with problems of Mexican workers and an ambitious ranch hand who becomes an oil tycoon.

Raymond Chandler's private eye, Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. Moose Malloy is a giant ex-con, fresh out of prison, who wants Marlowe to find his missing sweetheart, Velma. Marlowe winds up lying unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. He asks Grayle, a seedy collector, for some answers and runs into the seductive Mrs Grayle who sends him to a former gangster. The visit almost costs Marlow his life. He senses a connection between Mrs Grayle and the mysterious Velma and comes to the conclusion they are one and the same person - and that person needs him dead.

Swindlers Quincy and Jason, posing as master and slave, ride into backwater prairie towns. Jason is sold to the highest bidder, Quincy later springs him loose and they split town, split the cash and head on to the next sucker.

A Maine widow becomes a cause celebre when she sues a railroad tycoon over the loss of a valuable shipment of lobsters.