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The Big Sleep: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers. Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
With Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark. Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
Wealthy and ailing General Sternwood, who has not much time left, hires Private Detective Philip Marlowe to handle a blackmail perpetrated by rare book seller Arthur Gwynn Geiger against the General's younger of two daughters, wild Carmen Sternwood, for collection of purported gambling debts.
The Big Sleep (1946) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In re-cutting the film, Howard Hawks removed the scene in which Marlowe explains the crimes. The film's success supported his growing conviction that audiences didn't care if a plot made sense as long as they had a good time. Helpful • 221 2.
The Big Sleep: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers. Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
Synopsis. In 1970s England, the American private detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) arrives at the elegant stately home of General Sternwood (James Stewart), an elderly World War II general who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him.
Based on Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name, "The Big Sleep" is definitely one wild ride to a dark world filled with gangsters, femme fatals, pornographers and drug addicts; in simple words, the epitome of Film Noir stories with the character of Philip Marlow as one of the genre's biggest icon.
The Big Sleep (1939) is a pulp crime novel written by American-born author Raymond Chandler. It is the first novel to feature Chandler's famous detective, Philip Marlowe.
Sleep: Directed by Jason Yu. With Edson Camacho, Kim Gook Hee, Yoon Kyung-ho, Katie Leigh. A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.
