Film


The Big Sleep

Dir: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, John Ridgely
114mins   1946   US   PG   English   

Part of the Whodunnit Season

Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen.

Sternwood's older daughter, Vivian, provides assistance when she implies that the situation is more complex, and also involves casino owner and a recently disappeared family friend.

As people linked to the Sternwoods start being murdered, Marlowe finds himself getting ever deeper into the case.

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