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Big Sleep

Big Sleep

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Key Information
Directors: Howard Hawks
Stars: Humphrey Bogart
Actors: Bob Steele
Genre: Dramas
Subgenre: Recommended · Romances · Detectives · Film Noir · Betrayal · Classic · Mystery · Thriller
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Available Formats: VHS: 1945 Pre-Release Cut
UPC: 012569535732
Release Date: 1946
Running Time: 1hr 54min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Contains Two Versions, 3hr 50min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (January 04, 2000)
UPC: 012569502628
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 1hr 54min
Release Company: MGM Home Entertainment (April 24, 1991)
UPC: 027616137838
Credits
Screenwriter: William Faulkner
Professional Reviews
: (01/11/2002, p.28, Entertainment Weekly Staff): "...Watch Bogart and Lauren Bacall settle into their second flick together -- madly in love..."
Quotes from the Movie
: "My, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains." -- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)

"You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Nice thing when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy." -- General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to Marlowe

"So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books - or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you're a mess, aren't you?" -- Vivian Sherwood Rutledge (Lauren Bacall) to Marlowe

"If I seem a bit sinister as a parent, Mr. Marlowe, it's because my hold on life is too slight to include any Victorian hypocrisy. I need hardly add that any man who has lived as I have and indugles for the first time in parenthood at the age of 55 deserves all he gets." -- General to Marlowe

Marlowe to Vivian -- "Speaking of horses... you've got a touch of class, but I don't know how far you can go."
Vivian -- "A lot depends on who's in the saddle. Go ahead Marlowe. I like the way you work. In case you don't know it, you're doing all right."
More Information
Details: Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in their wake. The famously tortuous story line (Hawks supposedly asked Chandler to clarify a plot point about the murder of the family chauffeur; the novelist hadn't a clue as to who did the deed) seems beside the point when Bogart and Bacall are onscreen. The final release was recut to include more of their scenes together. A must! Remade in 1978.
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