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The Big Sleep (1946)

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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 15, 2000
• R2: 3 Jul 2000

MPAA Rating
NR

Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes

Country USA

Studio Warner Brothers

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Other Titles
• The Big Sleep
• Der Tiefe Schlaf (1967)
• Tote schlafen fest (1946)

Genre: Mystery, Film-Noir, Detectives, Betrayal, Murder, Blackmail, Cult Classic, Gangsters, Police, Femme Fatale

Tagline: The Violence-Screen's All-Time Rocker-Shocker!

Plot: Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in their wake. The famously tortuous story line (Hawks supposedly asked Chandler to clarify a plot point about the murder of the family chauffeur; the novelist hadn't a clue as to who did the deed) seems beside the point when Bogart and Bacall are onscreen. The final release was recut to include more of their scenes together. A must! Remade in 1978.

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1944 draft (by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman (from the novel by Raymond Chandler)) 210 kb

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Directed by

Howard Hawks
Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday

Written by

Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye, Farewell, My Lovely, Murder, My Sweet
William Faulkner The Long, Hot Summer, Land of the Pharaohs, The Reivers

Cast

Humphrey Bogart Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen
Lauren Bacall Dogville, Misery, Howl's Moving Castle
John Ridgely Arsenic and Old Lace, A Place in the Sun, The Greatest Show on Earth
Martha Vickers Captive Wild Woman
Dorothy Malone Basic Instinct, Written on the Wind, Artists and Models
Peggy Knudsen Humoresque, A Stolen Life, Good Morning, Miss Dove
Regis Toomey Spellbound, His Girl Friday, The Bishop's Wife
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Music By

Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace

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