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The Big Sleep (1946)

Name: The Big Sleep
Director: Howard Hawks
Genre: drama film, film noir, crime film
Rating: 7.9

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.

Directed by Howard Hawks · Shot by Sidney Hickox · Cut by Christian Nyby · Music by Max Steiner

Behind the scenes

the Big Sleep, Humphrey Bogart, and Everyone Else: The Obsessive Goes to the Movies (Ep 2) — Paul Thomas · 8 min

Elsewhere

More by Howard Hawks

A Little Princess — 1917
In Again, Out Again — 1917
Go and Get It — 1920
The Road to Glory — 1926
Fig Leaves — 1926
Paid to Love — 1927
Cradle Snatchers — 1927
The Air Circus — 1928
Fazil — 1928
A Girl in Every Port — 1928
Trent's Last Case — 1929
The Dawn Patrol — 1930
The Criminal Code — 1930
Scarface — 1932
Tiger Shark — 1932
La foule hurle — 1932
The Crowd Roars — 1932
Today We Live — 1933
The Prizefighter and the Lady — 1933
Viva Villa! — 1934
Twentieth Century — 1934
Barbary Coast — 1935
Ceiling Zero — 1936
Come and Get It — 1936
The Road to Glory — 1936
Sutter's Gold — 1936
Bringing Up Baby — 1938
Only Angels Have Wings — 1939
His Girl Friday — 1940
Ball of Fire — 1941

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