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.
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07/18/08
The Big Sleep (1946)
95 %
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Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 39
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying... [More]
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, John Ridgely
Director: Howard Hawks
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Reviews for The Big Sleep
Top Critic Bogart as Marlowe is compelling in this classic thriller that is complex but triumph of atmospheric cool.
07/18/08
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.
07/18/08
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Top Critic Tribes of monkeys doing monkey things, albeit things related to the perforation of the flesh: murder and blood and sweat and sex.
07/09/07
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.
02/10/06
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.
01/01/06
A trama extremamente complexa é uma mera desculpa para os diálogos perfeitos e para a presença sempre intensa de Bogart.
07/01/05
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