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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 25, 2006
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall | |
Performer: | John Ridgely, Dorothy Malone, Louis Jean Heydt, Elisha Cook, Jr., Regis Toomey, Sonia Darrin, Bob Steele, Martha Vickers, Tom Rafferty, Charles Waldron, Peggy Knudsen & Charles D. Brown | |
Directed by | Howard Hawks | |
Edited by | Christian Nyby | |
Screenplay by | William Faulkner, Jules Furthman & Leigh Brackett | |
Original story by | Raymond Chandler | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Carl Jules Weyl | |
Produced by | Howard Hawks | |
Director of Photography: | Sidney Hickox |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Big Sleep, though, is witty and sinister, and in an odd way is a realistic portrayal of big-city life with Arabian Nights overtones.
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The New Republic
Rating: 8/10 --
...seriously, does anyone care how the chauffeur died?
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TheArtsStl
...The chemistry between Bogart and Bacall is so blatant it's no surprise to learn they were married the same year. A joy... -- 5 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
The Big Sleep is the best scripted, best directed, best acted, and least comprehensible film noir ever made.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
For all the untidiness of its plot, The Big Sleep is, however, an enjoyable melodrama, exciting most of the time and comic when it chooses to be.
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Washington Star
There has probably never been so much plot in a film -- but it doesn't seem to matter. It, all looks very exciting, and if you follow half of it you'll get through.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
It is brilliantly directed and photographed. It moves with breathless speed. The acting is admirable. The dialogue (Raymond Chandler and William Faulkner are among those credited) is of an unusually high level of humour and crispness.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in their wake. The famously tortuous story line (Hawks supposedly asked Chandler to clarify a plot point about the murder of the family chauffeur; the novelist hadn't a clue as to who did the deed) seems beside the point when Bogart and Bacall are onscreen. The final release was recut to include more of their scenes together. A must! Remade in 1978.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Big Sleep, The
L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and a trail peopled with murderers, porographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Boart plays Raymond Chandlers' legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawkes serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore in the certified classic.
Keywords:
Detectives
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Classic
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Mystery
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Romance
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 119,848
- UPC: 012569676817
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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