“The Big Sleep” (Warner Bros., 1946) starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge. 8x10 movie still re-released for the 1997 restored version of the film.
"The Big Sleep" is a film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. It centers around the Sternwoods: an old, paralyzed ex-soldier, who made a fortune in oil and his two beautiful daughters – one a gambler, the other a degenerate; and a strangely missing son-in-law. Marlowe, the detective – shrewd, strong, and incorruptible, the healthy force amid the shadows and the whispers – is called in to break a blackmail case and ends up to his neck in a series of mysterious murders.
William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and added it to the National Film Registry. [Source: Wikipedia]
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-K49CUaeto
“The Big Sleep” (Warner Bros., 1946) starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge. 8x10 movie still re-released for the 1997 restored version of the film.
"The Big Sleep" is a film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. It centers around the Sternwoods: an old, paralyzed ex-soldier, who made a fortune in oil and his two beautiful daughters – one a gambler, the other a degenerate; and a strangely missing son-in-law. Marlowe, the detective – shrewd, strong, and incorruptible, the healthy force amid the shadows and the whispers – is called in to break a blackmail case and ends up to his neck in a series of mysterious murders.
William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and added it to the National Film Registry. [Source: Wikipedia]
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-K49CUaeto