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The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel.
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.
The Big Sleep was released 75 years ago, and its plot has been puzzling viewers ever since. There is no disputing that Howard Hawks's Los Angeles-set noir classic is one of the most...
The process follows private eye Philip Marlowe ( Humphrey Bogart) as he finds his way through the jungle of gamblers, pornographers, killers and blackmailers who have attached themselves to the rich old general ( Charles Waldron) and his two randy daughters (Bacall and Vickers).
L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. 3,110 IMDb 7.9 1 h 53 min 1946. X-Ray 13+. Suspense · Drama · Cerebral · Compelling. Available to rent or buy.
Wealthy and ailing General Sternwood, who has not much time left, hires Private Detective Philip Marlowe to handle a blackmail perpetrated by rare book seller Arthur Gwynn Geiger against the General's younger of two daughters, wild Carmen Sternwood, for collection of purported gambling debts.
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.
Guest Programmer Edward Norton: The Big Sleep (1946), 1946, with guest programmer Edward Norton and TCM’s Alicia Malone. Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dec 9, 2012 · Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results."
