Directed and Produced by: Howard Hawks
Stylish, smoky, sexy and smart, The Big Sleep (1946) set a high standard for hard-boiled crime fiction on the big screen, and served as a showcase for the smoldering romance of one of Hollywood’s royal couples – Bogie and Bacall.
The mystery is told from Marlowe's perspective, with Bogart in every scene. We see things as Marlowe sees them, and try to tease out the truth from a tangled mess of lies and liars as he does.Marlowe is summoned to the elderly General Sternwood's mansion, where among the general's hothouse orchids he is asked to find Sternwood's missing chauffeur and pseudo-son, Sean Regan. He meets the general's hothouse daughters, the somewhat wild Vivian (Bacall) and the very wild Carmen, who's being blackmailed over some naughty photos. Marlowe is quickly plunged into a puzzle of pornography, drug abuse, gambling and murder - seven murders, to be exact.
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