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The Big Sleep features a private investigator – a “private dick,” in the parlance – named Philip Marlowe, who is hired by an old, dying millionaire to deal with a blackmailer who has targeted one of his daughters. In investigating this blackmail, Marlowe – who would eventually figure into seven completed novels, and numerous short-stories – gets more than he bargains for, as the clues he follows leads him down a labyrinthian path strewn with an increasing number of dead bodies.
Big Sleep, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Doghouse ReillyHumphrey Bogart enters as Philip Marlowe, in the William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett screen treatment of Raymonnd Chandler's novel, meeting Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers) and the general (Charles Waldron), opening Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, 1946, co-starring Lauren Bacall.
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Jun 11, 2002 · The Big Sleep: A Novel. The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A dying millionaire hires private ...
The Big Sleep is a hard-boiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler, first published in 1939. It introduces private detective Philip Marlowe, who is hired to untangle a web of deception involving the wealthy Sternwood family. As Marlowe delves into the underworld of 1930s Los Angeles, he encounters a labyrinth of crime, corruption, and seduction ...
May 3, 2024 · The Big Sleep, American film noir, released in 1946, that was based on Raymond Chandler’s classic 1939 novel of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks, cowritten by author William Faulkner, and starred the popular team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
P.I. Philip Marlowe's hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his daughter, Carmen from being blackmailed over gambling debts, Marlowe finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organised crime. With help from Vivian (another of the general's daughters), Marlowe hatches a plot to free the family ...
