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The Big Sleep (1946)

Directed by Howard Hawks

Film Noir

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Rated NR | Length 114 minutes

Actors

Humphrey Bogart | Lauren Bacall | John Ridgely | Martha Vickers | Elisha Cook Jr. | Charles Waldron | Dorothy Malone | Regis Toomey | Peggy Knudsen | Charles D. Brown | Bob Steele | Louis Jean Heydt | Sonia Darrin | Trevor Bardette | Joy Barlow | Max Barwyn | Deannie Best | Tanis Chandler | Jack Chefe | James Conaty | Joseph Crehan | Jack Deery | Carole Douglas | Jay Eaton | Tom Fadden | Bess Flowers | Kenneth Gibson | Joe Gilbert | Stuart Hall | Shep Houghton | Kenner G. Kemp | Pete Kooy | Lorraine Miller | Forbes Murray | William H. O'Brien | Shelby Payne | Jack Perry | Tommy Rafferty | Waclaw Rekwart | Edward Rickard | Jeffrey Sayre | Emmett Vogan | Theodore von Eltz | Wally Walker | Dan Wallace | Paul Weber | Ben Welden | Suzanne Ridgeway

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
06/05/2013N/AN/AN/A4 stars
 

Viewing Notes

The Big Sleep is an intensely complicated noir, starring Humphrey Bogart. He plays detective Philip Marlowe, the same character in The Long Goodbye, both written by Raymond Chandler. He’s unorthodox. He’s persuasive. And he knows that everyone around him shelters secrets.

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