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1946
The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and leads to multiple murders.
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Philip Marlowe, protagonist of Raymond Chandler’s novels and the most iconic character of hard-boiled detective fiction, was embodied by many big stars throughout decades of screen adaptations. Among those stars the greatest is Humphrey Bogart, which shouldn’t be too surprising because the iconic actor built much of his stardom on characters that, like Marlowe, belonged to the world of film noir. It is Bogart’s perf…More
An ordinary affair in the smelly heart of America. Noir's movies have a rule, there is always a detective who is tired of life, it rains on his coat. The Big Sleep has everything that the cinema of the 40s had, a detective who can get out of the crowd with inborn black humor and sarcasm, a climate so heavy that it can be cut with a knife and an extremely interesting plot. The movie begins when Philip Marlowe gets an…More
