The Big Sleep (1946)
114 min - Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery - 31 August 1946 (USA)Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: William Faulkner (screen play), Leigh Brackett (screen play), 2 more credits »
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's favoured employee who has left with a mobster's wife. Each of the problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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