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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 ...
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The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by...
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In this episode, we dive into Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946), the ultimate film noir classic. With its moody atmosphere, intricate plotting, and morally ...
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Sep 17, 2018 · "The Big Sleep" (1946) with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe; John Ridgely as Eddie Mars; Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge
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Nov 14, 2020 · In this video, which is a part of our series called, Film Noir Movie Revies, we talk about The Big Sleep, which came out in 1946 and stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film is...
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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.
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...
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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.