The laconic L.A. Private Investigator Mike Faraday is engaged by wily old lawyer Ingolstadt to deliver evidence which will clear Sternwood, a notorious racketeer, of a murder charge. Sternwood happens to be innocent on this occasion. But when Mike is almost chopped in a blazing car shoot-out in which four mobsters are killed, he suspects that Ingolstadt is setting him up...
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