 While the three stories in the film are based on "The Hard Goodbye,"  "The Big Fat Kill" and "That Yellow Bastard" as well as the short  "The Customer is Always Right" there is a very brief scene taken  from the story "A Dame to Kill For," in which Dwight  (Clive Owen (qv)) thinks in a voice over in Kadies Bar how Marv  "would have been okay if hed been born a couple of thousand years  ago."