Movie
The Big Sleep
1946NR1h 54m7.6 / 10
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Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Synopsis
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
More about The Big Sleep
Cast
Humphrey BogartPhilip Marlowe
Lauren BacallVivian Sternwood Rutledge
John RidgelyEddie Mars
Martha VickersCarmen Sternwood
Louis Jean HeydtJoe BrodyCharles WaldronGeneral Sternwood
Regis ToomeyChief Inspector Bernie Ohls
Sonia DarrinAgnes Lowzier (uncredited)Credits
- Directed by
- Howard Hawks
- Written by
- Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $250K
- Box office
- $10.7M
Production
Warner Bros. PicturesUnited States
Themes
based on novel or bookblackmailbook storedetectivedrug addictionfilm noirgamblinglos angeles, california
