Philip Marlowe
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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.
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- Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Howard Hawks
- 1946-08-31
Aug 16, 2021 · When The Big Sleep came out in 1946, the New York Times's Bosley Crowther pronounced it "a web of utter bafflement... in which so many cryptic things occur amid so much involved and devious...
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.
Jun 22, 1997 · Two of the names mentioned most often in Howard Hawks' "The Big Sleep" (1946) are Owen Taylor and Sean Regan. One is the chauffeur for the wealthy Sternwood family. The other is an Irishman hired by old Gen. Sternwood "to do his drinking for him."
Private investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers).
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- Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
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William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman. Featuring. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely. Running time. 114 minutes. Howard Hawks reteamed Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall for this stylish and seductive adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s labyrinthine private-eye novel.
