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    The Big Sleep

    1946 · Mystery · 1h 54m

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  1. The Big Sleep: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers. Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.

    • (91K)
    • Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
    • Howard Hawks
    • 1946-08-31
  2. Pages. 277. OCLC. 42659496. Followed by. Farewell, My Lovely. The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles .

    • Raymond Chandler
    • 1939
  3. The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. [4] [5] William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler 's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and ...

  4. Aug 16, 2021 · 16 August 2021. By Nicholas Barber,Features correspondent. Alamy. Film noir The Big Sleep was released 75 years ago. While its plot has been criticised as 'cryptic' and 'confusing', that can...

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  6. Apr 7, 1978 · With Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark. Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.

    • (5.4K)
    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • Michael Winner
    • 1978-04-07
  7. Philip Marlowe #1. The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler. 3.95. 156,307 ratings7,953 reviews. Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.

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    • Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
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