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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Documentary, Trailers, French, Subtitled
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler’s legendary gumshoe and director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly involving Lauren Bacall), a brisk pace and atmosphere galore in this certified classic.
Editor's Note
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.
Plot Summary
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is thrust into a world of drugs, sex, blackmail, and murder when he agrees to protect a rich man's reckless, uncontrollable daughter.
| Features | (Notes: Contains both the original theatrical release and the 116 minute 1944 pre-release version.) |
| Region 1 | | Keep Case |
| Pan & Scan - 1.33 | | Dual Side - Single Layer | | Audio: | | Dolby Digital Mono - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers - 1.Theatrical Trailer | | Documentary - THE BIG SLEEP COMPARISONS 1945/1946 (Featuring Robert Gitt of UCLA analyzing scene differences between versions.) |
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| Interactive Menus | | Scene Access |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner Music |
| Release Date: 6/1/2004 |
| Running Time: 230 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1946 | | Catalog ID: 65026 | | UPC: 00012569502628 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: B&W |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "My, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains." ---- Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) | | "You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Nice thing when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy." ---- General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to Marlowe | | "So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books -- or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors. My, you're a mess, aren't you?" ---- Vivian Sherwood Rutledge (Lauren Bacall) to Marlowe | | "If I seem a bit sinister as a parent, Mr. Marlowe, it's because my hold on life is too slight to include any Victorian hypocrisy. I need hardly add that any man who has lived as I have and indugles for the first time in parenthood at the age of 55 deserves all he gets." ---- General to Marlowe | | Marlowe to Vivian ---- "Speaking of horses... you've got a touch of class, but I don't know how far you can go."|Vivian ---- "A lot depends on who's in the saddle. Go ahead Marlowe. I like the way you work. In case you don't know it, you're doing all right." |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...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 03/01/2000 p.84Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is one of the great film noirs, a black-and-white symphony..." 06/22/1997 p.4 Entertainment Weekly
"...Watch Bogart and Lauren Bacall settle into their second flick together -- madly in love..." 01/11/2002 p.28 |
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