THE BIG SLEEP (1946)

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• Release Year: 1946
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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. ; ; This 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.
• Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D. Brown, Bob Steele, Elisha Cook Jr., Louis Jean Heydt, Pat Clark, James Flavin, Thomas E. Jackson, Trevor Bardette, Joy Barlow, Max Barwyn, Deannie Best, Tanis Chandler, Jack Chefe, Joseph Crehan, Sonia Darrin, Carole Douglas, Jay Eaton, Tom Fadden, Bess Flowers, Shep Houghton, Pete Kooy, Lorraine Miller, Forbes Murray, Shelby Payne, Jack Perry, Tommy Rafferty, Emmett Vogan, Theodore von Eltz, Wally Walker, Dan Wallace, Paul Weber, Ben Welden, Howard Hawks, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: Turner Entertainment Company, Warner Home Video, First National Pictures
• Media Format: Movie