The Big Sleep (Snap case)
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandlers' legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore in the certified classic. more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-14-2009
- The best of Bacall & Bogart
The story is a old fashion who dunnit/ mystery. Plus the magic of Bogie & Bacall. Xcellent wish they still made em like this, where ya don't know the end until the end.
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-03-2009
- The player rarely mentioned
There have been a number of excellent reviews of this classic movie posted on this site and so I won't bore you readers with a reiteration of the praise this movie so well deserves. But I have seen almost no one mention the small, but...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-22-2009
- The Big Sleep--Both the 1945 and 1946 Versions! Terrific Stuff!
Howard Hawks ranks as one of the least pretentious Hollywood filmmakers. In Todd McCarthy's seminal biography, "Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood," Hawks summed up his philosophy about messages into his movies. "I never made a...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-16-2008
- If you are interested in Bogie and Bacall buy this. One of the best
My title says it all. Totally classic, classic, movie. If you don't like stuff like this now and you are young. You have a real treat waiting for you when you get older.Buy this movie !" What; are you waiting for me to count to three...
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-14-2009
- The best of Bacall & Bogart
The story is a old fashion who dunnit/ mystery. Plus the magic of Bogie & Bacall. Xcellent wish they still made em like this, where ya don't know the end until the end.
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-30-2008
- Decent, but not nearly in the league of The Maltese Falcon.
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's classic novel by no less a personage than William Faulkner himself, seems to be considered by many to be the be-all and end-all of Raymond...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-16-2003
- Aptly named- this was a BIG sleep
This movie was appropriately named, as I kept falling asleep. My sister had to keep waking me up. It made NO sense whatsoever ( I was never ACTUALLY asleep, my sister kept pinching me, so I didn't miss anything). Usually I like to...
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