1946 1h 54m Howard Hawks

The Big Sleep

Name: The Big Sleep
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Released: 1946
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers

★ 7.9 IMDb

Mystery & Thriller Crime Drama

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Writers Jules Furthman, Raymond Chandler, Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner

Cast Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers

DP Sidney Hickox

Production Designer Carl Jules Weyl

Music Max Steiner

Essays and Criticism

On Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks by Constance Penley, Saunie Salyer, and Michael Shedlin by Constance Penley, Jump Cut Who is the Hawksian Woman? by Louis Spong, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Phillip Marlowe films by William VanWert, Jump Cut In Search of the Female Gaze by Erika Balsom, Cinema Scope

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