The Big Sleep

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( fr ) The Big Sleep (1946) is the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as the hard-boiled private-eye Philip Marlowe and his eventual real-life wife Lauren Bacall as the femme fatale. The film was directed by Howard Hawks and is an example of the film noir genre. William Faulkner cowrote the screenplay with Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman.

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aileenpio Hall of fame  Where on earth did that color video come from? I love Bogie and Bacall; they're fabulous individually and dynamite together. The film is just not as noir as I like my film noir.

Tour keeps spirit of Chandler's LA alive
I've been a mystery buff since I was a kid, said Scott Nessa, who traveled all the way from Minneapolis with his friend Cathy Carter to see sites like the venerable Hollywood hangout Musso and Frank, where Chandler wrote The Big Sleep, the Lincoln Heights jail, where the author gained valuable knowledge for Marlowe's incarceration in The Long Goodbye while sleeping off his own benders, and the Chateau Delaware, the beaux arts building Marlowe was living in when he set out to learn who put [Read more]
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