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.
4 November 1884, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1 July 1887, Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
June 12, 1901 in Toledo, Ohio, USA
January 27, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA
16 September 1924, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1903, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
22 April 1923, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
15 July 1883, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 January 1907, Portland, Oregon, USA
September 27, 1893 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
July 31, 1892 in Sydney, Australia
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
13 August 1898, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
November 5, 1893 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
July 8, 1897 in Illinois, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
17 January 1898, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
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19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
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April 1, 1894 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
29 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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August 13, 2014
The Big Sleep is the best scripted, best directed, best acted, and least comprehensible film noir ever made.
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.
March 07, 2014
The Big Sleep is as fresh and perverse as ever, and remains one of Hollywood's most entrancingly strange bedtime stories.
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.
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.
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.
October 04, 2016
Classic noir gem has menace, innuendo.
June 24, 2006
This is arguably the high-water mark of Hollywood's love affair with the infinitely slippery possibilities of the English language.
July 18, 2008
What you remember here are moments.
