1. The Big Sleep (1946 Film) Summary - GradeSaver
General Sternwood is a sickly old man who has hired private detective Philip Marlowe to sort out gambling debts accrued by his wayward daughter, Carmen.
The Big Sleep (1946 Film) study guide contains a biography of director Howard Hawks, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
2. The Big Sleep movie review & film summary (1946) | Roger Ebert
The process follows private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) as he finds his way through the jungle of gamblers, pornographers, killers and blackmailers.
Two of the names mentioned most often in Howard Hawks' "The Big Sleep" (1946) are Owen Taylor and Sean Regan. One is the chauffeur for the wealthy Sternwood
3. The Big Sleep (1946) - BFI
The plot is famously difficult to follow: the legend goes that Hawks phoned Chandler during the shoot to check who killed the Sternwood chauffeur, and even ...
Howard Hawks reteamed Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall for this stylish and seductive adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s labyrinthine private-eye novel.
4. The Big Sleep by Hawks [1946] - Britannica
3 okt 2024 · Philip Marlowe, the cynical private detective portrayed by Bogart, is hired by the wealthy General Sternwood (played by Charles Waldron) to ...
The Big Sleep, American film noir, released in 1946, that was based on Raymond Chandler’s classic 1939 novel of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks, cowritten by author William Faulkner, and starred the popular team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Although its plot is often cited
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5. The Big Sleep (1946) - Filmsite.org
The film's title, The Big Sleep, refers to death. Blackmailers and murderers commit their ill deeds (gambling, pornography, vice, perversion) while the world ...
The Big Sleep (1946) is one of Raymond Chandler's best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed into a film noir, private detective film classic. This successful adaptation of Chandler's 1939 novel was from his first Philip Marlowe novel. [Chandler took segments of two of his own, previously-published stories that appeared in Black Mask magazine: "Killer in the Rain," and "The Curtain."] It was directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, scripted by Nobel laureate William Faulkner (with additional assistance from Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman), and scored by composer Max Steiner.
6. The Big Sleep - George Kelley Paperback & Pulp Fiction Collection
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood to stop a blackmailer. Marlowe suspects that the old General is merely testing his ...
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7. The Big Sleep | Rotten Tomatoes
Filled with twists, turns and intrigue it is a non stop thrill ride. It features a young Dorothy Malone who is the Proprietress of the Acme Book Shop. Her ...
Private investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers). Sternwood's older daughter, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), provides assistance when she implies that the situation is more complex, and also involves casino owner (John Ridgely) and a recently disappeared family friend. As people linked to the Sternwoods start being murdered, Marlowe finds himself getting ever deeper into the case.
8. Movie Review – The Big Sleep - PopCult Reviews
8 sep 2023 · LA private eye Phillip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is called to the lavish mansion of General Sternwood to serve as a mediator to resolve debts ...
The Big Sleep (1946)Written by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules FurthmanDirected by Howard Hawks Much about The Big Sleep makes it an American film of immense historical importance. It w…
9. The Big Sleep - AFI Catalog - American Film Institute
Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood, a wealthy, aging invalid with two wild young daughters: the ...
Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood, a wealthy, aging invalid with two wild young daughters: the predatory, childish Carmen and the divorced Vivian Rutledge. Sternwood explains that Arthur Gwynne Geiger, a rare book dealer, is demanding payment of Carmen's gambling debts. Sternwood adds that earlier, a man named Joe Brody made a similar request, which was handled by ex-bootlegger Sean Regan, who has since disappeared. Although Marlowe advises Sternwood to pay the money, he agrees to look into the matter for him. After he leaves the general, Vivian asks to speak with him. She assumes that Sternwood hired Marlowe to look into Regan's disappearance, but Marlowe reveals nothing. At Geiger's store, Marlowe questions Agnes, the attendant, about rare books, and her confused response convinces him that the store is a cover for some illegal activity. The attractive bookseller across the street confirms his guess, and Marlowe waits a
10. The Big Sleep | Introduction & Summary | Britannica
29 aug 2024 · It was the first of seven novels to feature the famed detective Philip Marlowe. The story was filmed twice, in 1946 and 1978.
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11. Noirvember: “The Big Sleep” (1946) - Katie at the Movies
1 dec 2020 · The plot involves detective Phillip Marlowe (Bogart), who is tasked by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to resolve gambling debts his ...
The first time I watched “The Big Sleep”, it ended and I realized I had no idea who the murderer was. Every time I rewatch it I get lost as to what exactly is going on at certain points in the stor…
12. The Big Sleep (1946) - Movie Review / Film Essay - Gone With The Twins
P rivate investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) arrives at the Sternwood manor to see the General (Charles Waldron), a wheelchair-bound old man.
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13. The Big Sleep (1946) - Decent Films
The dialogue is hard-boiled and crackles with wit, the plot is fast-paced and nearly impenetrable, and Humphrey Bogart is coolly unflappable in Howard Hawkes's ...
The dialogue is hard-boiled and crackles with wit, the plot is fast-paced and nearly impenetrable, and Humphrey Bogart is coolly unflappable in Howard Hawkes’s stylish noir classic The Big Sleep, based on the Raymond Chandler novel.
14. Book and Movie Review: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
24 sep 2024 · The first Philip Marlowe novel. Vintage Crime, 1939, 231 pages Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family.
The first Philip Marlowe novel. Vintage Crime, 1939, 231 pages Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two…
15. The Big Sleep (1946 Film) Study Guide | GradeSaver
The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart ...
The Big Sleep (1946 Film) study guide contains a biography of director Howard Hawks, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
16. The Big Sleep (Film, 1946) - MovieMeter.nl
Plot The Big Sleep. "The picture they were born for!" Privédetective Philip Marlowe wordt ingehuurd om de jongste dochter van generaal Sternwood, Carmen, in ...
Film noir / Mystery film.
17. The Big Sleep: Proof That Plot Doesn't Matter | Den of Geek
The Big Sleep isn't about the labyrinthine plot that Marlowe finds himself buried in for 114 minutes; it's about just how cool he and Bacall's Vivian Rutledge ...
We still don't know what happened in Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's noir masterpiece The Big Sleep!
18. THE BIG SLEEP (1946) - Film Noir Board
23 aug 2014 · Philip Marlowe (Bogart) arrives at the Sternwood residence in LA. Almost instantly he is greeted by the flirtatious but vacuous Carmen Sternwood ...
A blog devoted to the classic American film noirs of the 1940s and 1950s.
