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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep follows private detective Philip Marlowe as he is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
13 August 1898, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 July 1887, Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
6 September 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 December 1903, San Francisco, California, USA
29 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 September 1924, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
22 April 1923, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
28 May 1925, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
23 December 1874, Waterford, New York, USA
17 April 1903, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
25 December 1899, New York City, New York, USA
23 January 1907, Portland, Oregon, USA
February 22, 2017
The plethora of killings now seems on the whole less horrific than it once did, while the film's tone of escalating absurdity in a genuinely dark world grows if anything even more sprightly as the years go by.
August 13, 2014
The Big Sleep is the best scripted, best directed, best acted, and least comprehensible film noir ever made.
July 18, 2008
Brittle Chandler characters have been transferred to the screen with punch by Howard Hawks' production and direction, providing full load of rough, tense action most of the way.
June 24, 2006
This is arguably the high-water mark of Hollywood's love affair with the infinitely slippery possibilities of the English language.
August 30, 2012
The Big Sleep, though, is witty and sinister, and in an odd way is a realistic portrayal of big-city life with Arabian Nights overtones.
May 20, 2003
It's likely to leave you confused and dissatisfied.
July 18, 2008
What you remember here are moments.
October 04, 2016
Classic noir gem has menace, innuendo.
March 07, 2014
The Big Sleep is wakeful fare for folks who don't care what is going on, or why, so long as the talk is hard and the action harder.
March 07, 2014
The Big Sleep is as fresh and perverse as ever, and remains one of Hollywood's most entrancingly strange bedtime stories.
