The Big sleep (film, 1946)

Synopsis

Philip Marlowe the detective seeks compromising photographs of Carmen, the girl of the Sternwood general, and will fall in love with his/her sister, Vivian. Carmen seems victim of a blackmail whereas Vivian côtoie the local gangsters.

Data sheet

Title: the Big sleep
original Title: The Big Sleep
Realizer: Howard Hawks
Scenario: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, according to the novel of Raymond Chandler
Production: Jack Warner and Howard Hawks for the Warner Bros.
Music: max Steiner
Decoration: Carl Jules Weyl
Costumes: Leah Rhodos
Photography: Sid Hickox
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Black and white
Kind: Black film, whodunnit
Lasted: 114 minutes
Coming out date: 1946

Distribution

Humphrey Bogart : Philip Marlowe
Lauren Bacall : Vivian Sternwood
Martha Vickers: Carmen Sternwood
Laws Jean Heydt: Joe Brody
John Ridgely: Eddie Mars
Dorothy Malone: the girl of the bookstore
Elisha Cook Jr: Jones
Governed Toomey: Bernie Ohls
Sonia Darrin : Agnes
Bob Steel: Canino
Tom Rafferty: Carol Lundgren
Charles Waldron: the general Sternwood
Peggy Knudsen: Mona Mars

Around film

the intrigue of film is particularly complex, so much so that the realizer of the Howard Hawks film requested from the one scenario writers, celebrates it writer William Faulkner, if one of the characters of film called to die were assassinated or if it committed suicide. Faulkner admitted that it was not very sure either, and decided to telephone Chandler, thinking that the author of the original novel was inevitably to know the answer. With this question, Chandler answered malicieusement that it did not know anything of it, a manner of meaning that the intrigue itself was not according to him the most important point of the history.

External bond

the Big sleep on Internet Movie Database

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