Release Date: Feb 15, 2000 Region: 1 Runtime: 230 mins Studio: Warner Bros. Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
Video:
Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles: English, French Packaging: Snap Case Rating: NR Features:
Documetary The Big Sleep Comparisons 1945/1946, Featuring Robert Gitt of UCLA Analyzing scene differences between versions. Interactive Menus Production Notes Theatrical Trailer Scene Access
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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