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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.
What you remember here are moments.
It's likely to leave you confused and dissatisfied.
Don't try too hard to follow the story, just get swept away by the mood of the film.
A movie that every film student should study and every movie lover should watch at least once.
Fascinating if not necessarily improved edition of Howard Hawks' 1946 detective classic.
It's unmissable, irresistible.
Oozing class from start to finish, Howard Hawks' 1946 noir isn't just a Hollywood classic.
No screen couple, before or since, had as much chemistry as Bogart and Bacall.
One of the great pleasures of the silver screen.
Try to see the original version, which explains the plot better and has better story telling.
If anyone ever tries to make the argument that plot is more important than anything else in cinema, this is a great movie to throw in their face.
The direction, cinematography, screenplay, brooding score and acting in this movie are all without fault. If you see one film noir movie in your life, make it this one.
Bogart as Marlowe is compelling in this classic thriller that is complex but triumph of atmospheric cool.
Tribes of monkeys doing monkey things, albeit things related to the perforation of the flesh: murder and blood and sweat and sex.
True classic Bogie and Bacall, even though plot is way out puzzling in many ways.
One of the most intriguing, energetic and playful film noirs ever.
One of the finest mainstream noir-thrillers ever made.
It matters not that even the writers (including William Faulkner) weren't sure who shot whom in Hawks' rousing adaptation of the Raymond Chandler detective novel.
There's little else I can add about this proto-noir, one of the archetypes of the genre and a showstopper for Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, who spar through a catty romance while dancing through a taut mystery.
Wide awake amid the smoke and mirrors.
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