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- Initially produced in late 1944, the film's release was delayed by over a year due to the studio wanting to release war films in anticipation of the end of World War II. A cut was released to servicemen overseas in 1945 shortly after its completion. During its delay, Bogart and Bacall married and Bacall was cast in Confidential Agent.
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Aug 16, 2021 · Film noir The Big Sleep was released 75 years ago. While its plot has been criticised as 'cryptic' and 'confusing', that can also be a virtue, argues Nicholas Barber.
The Big Sleep, which Chandler developed on the basis of his two stories (‘Killer in the Rain’ and ‘The Curtain’) published in the pulp magazine Black Mask a decade earlier, seemed as a perfect opportunity for Hawks and the studio to cash in on their Bogart-Bacall check.
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.
- Raymond Chandler
- 1939
Within four years after The Big Sleep was released, a violent if unconscious backlash set in, and women’s roles in Hollywood films still haven’t recovered from what we might call the ‘Marilyn Monroe syndrome’.
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 ...
Mar 4, 2024 · By the time the movie was released, its leads Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall had married, a celebrity pairing for the ages. The universal/general Hard-boiled detective fiction is firmly rooted in a no-nonsense present.
Jun 9, 2023 · Grizzled LA detective Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is hired initially by the rich, old and sickly General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to resolve a murky blackmailing case involving his wayward younger...
