The Big Sleep
by Howard Hawks
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Actor: Dorothy Malone, Humphrey Bogart, John Ridgely, Lauren Bacall, Martha VickersDirector: Howard Hawks
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Sidney Hickox
Producer: Howard Hawks
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Writer: Jules Furthman
Writer: Leigh Brackett
Writer: Raymond Chandler
Writer: William Faulkner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Big Sleep
Movie Review: Read the book first
Summary: 3 Stars
Many viewers say this (these) movie(s) is (are) very confusing. I think it would help a lot to be familiar with the Chandler book. Much of the power and coherence of the story is lost in the translation from novel to film and from the 1944 to the 1946 version. The Production Code certainly prevented the filmmakers from showing the younger sister's blackmailer as a pornographer, and when his body is discovered, she is supposed to be sitting in that chair nude. One clarifying scene was cut from the 1946 version, showing Marlowe inspecting the dead man's bedroom and purloining his house keys. (How did he get into the house later on?) Nonetheless, there is much to love in the spooky atmosphere and snappy dialogue -- and for Bogart/Bacall fans (I'm not one), this is a special feast.
Summary of The Big Sleep
L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and a trail peopled with murderers, porographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Boart plays Raymond Chandlers' legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawkes serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore in the certified classic.Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made screen history together more than once, but they were never more popular than in this 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, directed by Howard Hawks (To Have and Have Not). Bogart plays private eye Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a wealthy socialite (Bacall) to look into troubles stirred up by her wild, young sister (Martha Vickers). Legendarily complicated (so much so that even Chandler had trouble following the plot), the film is nonetheless hugely entertaining and atmospheric, an electrifying plunge into the exotica of detective fiction. William Faulkner wrote the screenplay. --Tom Keogh
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