The Big Sleep (1946)
With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Martha Vickers, Regis Toomey, Bob Steele, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Waldron
Directed by Howard Hawks
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.
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