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The Big Sleep is a american film of genre Drama directed by Howard Hawks released in USA on 31 august 1946 with Humphrey Bogart
The Big Sleep (1946)
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Add to a movie listThe Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results". William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay.
In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and added it to the National Film Registry.
Synopsis
Private detective Philip Marlowe (Bogart) is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood (Waldron). The wealthy retired general wants to resolve gambling debts his daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Vickers), owes to bookseller Arthur Gwynn Geiger. As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood's older daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rutledge (Bacall), stops him. She suspects her father's true motive for calling in a detective is to find his young friend Sean Regan, who had mysteriously disappeared a month earlier.Actors
Humphrey Bogart
(Philip Marlowe)
Lauren Bacall
(Vivian Sternwood Rutledge)
Martha Vickers
(Carmen Sternwood)
John Ridgely
(Eddie Mars)
Dorothy Malone
(Acme Bookstore Proprietress)
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