The Big Sleep

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall Director: Howard Hawks Original UK Premiere: 1946 Dvd Release: 3rd July, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish Dubbed In: French, Italian

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The Big Sleep is a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, thrice filmed. The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart as the hard-boiled private-eye Philip Marlowe. Marlowe gets sucked up into a case involving a missing man, two rich girls, a complex blackmail scheme & murder galore. The eldest girl, a femme fatale, is played by Lauren Bacall. The film was directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner cowrote the screenplay with Leigh Brackett & Jules Furthman, based on Chandlers novel; the plot is so convoluted that Faulkner insisted that he didnt understand all of it. The movie set the standard for film noir for years to come & has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Big Sleep was remade in 1978 by Michael Winner starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe. James Stewart appeared as General Sternwood. The action was set in London, England rather than California. The later film The Big Lebowski is also based on The Big Sleep, with numerous alterations. Posters Of The Big Sleep

Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall made screen history together more than once, but they were never more popular than in this 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandlers novel, directed by Howard Hawks . Bogart plays private eye Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a wealthy socialite to look into troubles stirred up by her wild, young sister . Legendarily complicated , the film is nonetheless hugely entertaining & atmospheric, an electrifying plunge into the exotica of detective fiction. William Faulkner wrote the screenplay.

Humphrey Bogart was an iconic American actor who retains legendary status decades after his death. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Bogart typically played smart, playful, courageous, tough, occasionally reckless characters, living in a corrupt world, yet anchored by a hidden moral code. He was also able to play characters with flaws & weaknesses that led to their destruction. His most notable movies include Angels With Dirty Faces, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have & Have Not, The Big Sleep, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, In a Lonely Place, The African Queen & The Caine Mutiny. In all, he appeared in 75 feature motion pictures. Outside of America Bogart is seen as a cult figure. French actors such as Jean-Paul Belmondo were deeply influenced by his work & image. In À bout de souffle, perhaps the best-known work of French director Jean-Luc Godard, the protagonist Michel worships the persona of Humphrey Bogart & mimes some of Bogart’s best-known gestures in a way that is both absurd & touching. Posters Of Humphrey Bogart

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Lauren Bacall is an American film & stage actress. Born in New York, New York as Betty Joan Perske, Bacall studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts & made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942. She made her film debut in 1944. Bacall was married to Humphrey Bogart from 1945 until his death in 1957 & to Jason Robards from 1961 until their divorce in 1969. She is the mother of two sons, news producer Stephen Bogart & actor Sam Robards & one daughter Leslie Bogart, who became a nurse. Bacalls first motion picture was To Have & Have Not, in which she appeared with Humphrey Bogart. She also starred with Bogart in The Big Sleep, Dark Passage & Key Largo. How to Marry a Millionaire, Written on the Wind, Harper, Murder on the Orient Express, The Shootist & Diamonds. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces. Bacalls Broadway stage roles have included Goodbye, Charley in 1959, Cactus Flower in 1965, Applause in 1970 & Woman of the Year in 1981. Lauren Bacall has written two autobiographies, Lauren Bacall By Myself & Now. Posters Of Lauren Bacall

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Howard Hawks was one of the more critically acclaimed directors of the Classic Hollywood Era. Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday - screwball comedy film. Hawks also produced The Thing From Another World, considered as one of the best science fiction films from the 1950s. It is also widely thought that he actually directed it, although the sole directors credit went to Christian Nyby. Hawks was notorious for fabricating stories about the movie business, usually in a way which inflated his already considerable contributions to it. One such story has it that Hawks told Ernest Hemingway that he could make a good movie out of the worst thing that Hemingway had ever written, at which point Hemingway challenged him to make a movie out of To Have & Have Not. Hawks film, which used a screenplay adapted by William Faulkner, may not be a classic, but it includes a number of memorable scenes, including Bacall s exercise in teaching Bogart how to whistle. Posters Of Rio Lobo

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