The Big Sleep (1946)

Name: The Big Sleep (1946)
Duration: 1 h 54 min

1hr 54m

1hr 54m
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Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Howard Hawks

Writer:

William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman

Release Date:

Aug 31, 1946

Runtime:

1hr 54m

Synopsis

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.

Cast

Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall
John Ridgely
Martha Vickers
Dorothy Malone
Peggy Knudsen
Regis Toomey
Charles Waldron
Charles D. Brown
Bob Steele

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Based on 19 Critics

8.2

USER SCORE (16)

Universal acclaim based on 16 Reviews

A very good movie (1946), and by far the best Raymond Chandler adaptation, but it isn’t one of Howard Hawks’s most refined efforts—it lacks his clarity of line, his balance, his sense of a free spirit at play within a carefully set structure.

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

100

It is one of the great film noirs, a black-and-white symphony that exactly reproduces Chandler's ability, on the page, to find a tone of voice that keeps its distance, and yet is wry and humorous and cares.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

100

Bogart as Marlowe is compelling in this classic thriller that is complex but triumph of atmospheric cool.

Kim Newman

Empire

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