The Big Sleep
The picture they were born for!
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- Crime
- Thriller
- Romance
- Mystery
Overview
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Keywords
- los angeles
- california
- based on novel or book
- drug addiction
- murder
- whodunit
- detective
- missing person
- wealthy family
- sister
- private detective
- gambling
- private investigator
- poison
- film noir
- blackmail
- book store
- prank telephone call
- los angeles, california
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 22, 1946
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Humphrey Bogart,Lauren Bacall,John Ridgely,Martha Vickers,Louis Jean Heydt,Charles Waldron,Regis Toomey,Sonia Darrin,Elisha Cook Jr.,Bob Steeleand 38 more
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Producer
- Howard Hawks,Jack L. Warner
- Cinematography
- Sidney Hickox
- Music
- Max Steiner
- Budget
- $250,000
- Revenue
- $10,682,000
- IMDb
- tt0038355