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The Big Sleep (1946)  link to The Big Sleep on IMDb  

Number: 1451

poster The Big Sleep

IMDb Rating:
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8.0/10 (68670 votes)

Country: USA, 114 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Director(s): Howard Hawks

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed about her gambling debts; things almost immediately unravel and blow up from here, as Marlowe finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organized crime. Marlowe, with the help of the General's eldest daughter, Vivian, skillfully plot to free the family from this web and trap the main main behind much of this mischief, Eddie, to meet his end at the hands of his own henchmen.

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Cast:

photo Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart Philip Marlowe
photo Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall Vivian Rutledge
photo John Ridgely John Ridgely Eddie Mars
photo Martha Vickers Martha Vickers Carmen Sternwood
photo Dorothy Malone Dorothy Malone Acme Book Shop Proprietress

Medium: Digital Copy,

Location: F:\Films\The Big Sleep\The Big Sleep.mkv

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3