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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Dec 10, 2002
Pros: Bogart, Bacall, Supporting Cast, Dialog, Cinematography, Direction, Score
Cons: Bacall cannot sing
Summary: Mrs. Rutledge: "I don't like your manners!" Philip Marlowe: "I don't like them either. I grieve over them long winter nights." The Big Sleep is a stylish, atmospheric crime thriller that confirmed Humphrey Bogart as the king of film ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 25, 2013
Pros: Bogart and Bacall, great story with lots of murder and lots of mystery
Cons: black and white, but not a con for me
Summary: The Big Sleep is the second film that was made starring Lauren Bacall, but the third film that was released starring Lauren Bacall. As in her 1944 debut, To Have and Have Not, she plays opposite Humphrey Bogart in this ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 4, 2012
Pros: Bogart and Bacall at their best, great acting and dialogue
Cons: Some might find the plot too hard to follow
Summary: One of my favorite experiences as a movie fan is the chance to watch a classic film on the big screen. No matter how many times you see a film on DVD, seeing it in a movie theatre is like seeing it again for the first time. When I saw that a DC theatre ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 29, 2012
Pros: Bogie, Bacall, Camera, Lighting, Hawks Direction, Elisha Cook Jr.
Cons: overly complex but few will care
Summary: Howard Hawks’ 1946 The Big Sleep solidified Bogart as THE iconic Private Eye. Huston had him in Maltese Falcon (1941) as Dashiel Hammett’s Sam Spade but Hawks worked with Bogie to create some of the most beloved and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 19, 2010
Pros: The family innuendo, Bogie's back-talk!
Cons: Nothing, really.
Summary: The Big Sleep is an excellent crime drama written originally by Raymond Chandler, who admitted the plot was so complex that he needed to help the scripwriters figure who killed who and couldn't remember (or so the story goes). Bogart is a sassy, tough ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 17, 2009
Pros: Everything.
Cons: Had to dance around the Hays code; but you can still read between the lines.
Summary: The Big Sleep (1946) Directed by Howard Hawks.Vivian: What will your first step be? Philip Marlowe: The usual one. Vivian: I didn't know there was a usual one. Philip Marlowe: Well sure there is, it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 13, 2007
Pros: Film noire at its best.
Cons: Even though interesting, you have to work to follow the plot.
Summary: "Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!" Raymond Chandler, a stylish writer who lived in the first half of twentieth-century America, wrote a number of crime stories and novels which set the tone for much of the whole field of crime and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 23, 2005
Pros: An excellent cast, remastered print, and DVD features!
Cons: Some of the edited stuff from 1945 could be put back in.
Summary: Based on Raymond Chandler's first novel from 1939, "The Big Sleep" is every bit the quintessential detective Film Noir. Starring Humphrey Bogart and the young model-turned-actress, Lauren Bacall, directed by Howard Hawks and sporting a crackerjack ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 14, 2004
Pros: Style, atmosphere, and everything else
Cons: None for me
Summary: As regards my reading choices growing up, I graduated from the cutesy tomes of 'The famous Five' and 'Biggles', almost seamlessly into the gritty darkness of Raymond Chandler. Similarly, around the same time, my tastes in films went from ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 12, 2004
Pros: classic
Cons: convoluted in spots
Summary: PREFACE: All right, this one was originally written as an essay for a film class, explaining the relevance and importance of a film on the AFI's top 100 - as such, it's much more formal a review than I'd ever write normally, and perhaps unindictative ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 9, 2000
Pros: Solid mystery, and splendid big name performances
Cons: a convoluted story, but this happened with the book also
Summary: The novel was purportedly penned in three weeks, and by the time the story made it to the big screen some changes were ultimately made but the plot basically follows Chandlers noir masterpiece, and Bogie and Bacall do a good Marlowe, the wise cracking ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 24, 2000
Pros: Exciting and dark
Cons: co-on? What is this con you speak of?
Summary: Humphrey Bogart's best, this simple yarn will keep you guessing, even those of you prejudiced against black and white films, subtitling and widescreen. This film should be thrust forward as THE film noir movie. It has all the rules of the genre ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 24, 1999
Pros: Great...lighting, acting, scripting -- and the indescribably wonderful work of that chameleon-like director, Howard Hawks.
Cons: Dated, and at its best on a big screen.
Summary: By Max Scheinin.
Note: I wrote this review a couple of years back, and it may not sound much like my current writing. Still, I think I did a fine job of communicating everything that needed to be said about this wonderful film. And given my ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 23, 1999
Pros: cast, script, very entertaining
Cons: characters, confusing plot, endless murders
Summary: "The Big Sleep" is the second of four films that Humphrey Bogart made with Lauren Bacall. It is also the second most famous detective film that Bogart made, after "The Maltese Falcon".
"The Big Sleep" is an ... read more
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