The Big Sleep
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Movie Reviews of The Big Sleep
Movie Review: A Bogart Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
They don't make movies like this anymore! Everything about this movie makes it a MUST for anyone who's serious about collecting and buying truly great movies.
The story is compelling and will keep you guessing from start to finish, don't miss a minute of it or you'll fall behind.
The actors are amazing. Bogart shows in this movie that he is one of the 5 greatest actors in movie history. He delivers the dialogue like no one can. Bacall shows at such a early point in her carreer that she can hang with Bogart, something only a few actresses have been able to do. Her mysterious presense adds to the film's greatness.
The supporting actors are many and are all excellent character actors.
For me the best part of the movie is the dialogue. In a time where nobody talks like they do in the Big Sleep I found it hyptnotizing and audibly music to my ears.
This is one movie you must have.
Movie Review: Light another cigarette
Summary: 5 Stars
It's got 1940's cars, offices, clothes, phones, cabs, guns, clubs, dames, rain, fog, hats. It's got Bogart and Bacall. It's got Elisha Cook Jr (in a small but effective role). It's got a long convoluted story that allows Bogart to be Bogart scene after scene. And Bogart IS in charge of every situation. Every dame, EVERY dame, in the film throws him a look that he feels in his left front hip pocket. There is the omniscient Max Steiner score that tells us how Bogart feels, and how we feel about every scene/situation. The terse tought bantering conversations. There is a restaurant scene with Bogie and Bacall, where ostensibly they are discussing race horses. But we realise they are actually revealing to each other their love making styles/preferences. It is sexier then any between the sheets body double close ups of body parts "love scenes" we experience nowadays. This is Warner Brothers, Bogart, Bacall, Hawks etc in top form.Movie Review: It still sizzles after all these years
Summary: 5 Stars
If someone ever asked me to name a better "non-sensical" film than The Big Sleep," I would be hard pressed to ever name one . This film moves so fast, and is loaded with some of the most snappiest and memorable dialog, it hardly matters that the film as a whole doesn't make much sense. It's like it was specifically created to toss away any conventional story, and simply provide fast and furious entertainment....and boy does it ever. Bogart and Bacall are in it for the ride, and are absolute dynamite. But, just as good are Martha Vickers and Dorothy Malone. In fact, the entire cast seemed to be completely aware of what kind of film this was to be, and decided to have a blast.
We, the audience, can only be thankful for such a unique and enjoyable film. 61 years later, this film still ssssssmokes and will leave you breathless. It's truly tremendous fun and is highly recommended entertainment.
Movie Review: The player rarely mentioned
Summary: 5 Stars
There have been a number of excellent reviews of this classic movie posted on this site and so I won't bore you readers with a reiteration of the praise this movie so well deserves. But I have seen almost no one mention the small, but excellent, part played by the very young Dorothy Malone. (She is the bespectacled bookseller who manages the bookstore across the street from the villain's bookstore.) It starts to rain, Bogey tells Dorothy that he has bottle of whiskey; she pulls down the shade over the door and posts the "Closed" sign. Bogey makes a small hand motion suggesting that she take off her glasses; she demurely turns around and removes her glasses undoes her hair from its rather severe pulled-back style and voila! Fade out to next scene. So very, very sexy and everyone had their clothes on!Movie Review: Definative Phillip Marlowe
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite the newer DVD release from TCM---this is the best bet regarding the "Big Sleep" which includes both versions of the film. Actually, the 1945 pre-release version on this disc is the superior movie---at least the plot line is more coherent. The changes made in the 1946 release version were made to feature more of the chemistry between Bacall and Bogart--but at the cost of deleting several key scenes from the original which kept the plot line in tact. But in either one, Bogart was the definitive Phillip Marlowe--better than Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery or Robert Mitchum (who starred in the vastly inferior 1970's version).
If you've read the original Raymond Chandler novel, you know that the plot line was complicated enough---as originally written.