Nina Van Pallandt

A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer's plans to conquer the land.

Elliott Gould is private eye Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's wry, neo-noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler. Altman updates the '50s Hollywood of Chandler's novel to the 1970s.