"Kissing is nice. But your father didn't hire me to sleep with you."
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)
"We made a deal and you're going to stick to it, right or wrong."
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart)
"The sultry mood, the incredibly witty script and the performances are impeccable."
Geoff Andrew, Time Out Film Guide
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. But Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style - and style is what The Big Sleep is all about. Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore.
The DVD doubles your pleasure, offering two versions of this whodunit supreme: the familiar 1946 theatrical version (Side A) full of reshot scenes of incendiary Bogart/Bacall chemistry, and the less-familiar 1945 prerelease version (Side B), which recently resurfaced and whose plot and resolution are more linear in fashion.
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Director: Howard Hawks
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Documentary The Big Sleep Comparisons 1945/1946, Featuring Robert Gitt of UCLA Analyzing Scene Differences Between Versions. |
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Contains Both the 1945 Prerelease Version and the 1946 Theatrical Release Versions. |
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Documentary The Big Sleep Comparisons 1945/1946, Featuring Robert Gitt of UCLA Analyzing Scene Differences Between Versions. |
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Original Theatrical Trailer. |
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Subtitles: English & Français. |
1945
B&W
115 min.
Not Rated
1946
B&W
114 min.
Not Rated
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