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The Big Sleep is a 1946 American crime, film noir, and drama film directed by Howard Hawks. The black-and-white picture, which runs for 114 minutes, was produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix. The cast includes Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, and Martha Vickers. The screenplay was written by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, and Raymond Chandler, based on Raymond Chandler’s work. Sidney Hickox served as director of photography, Christian Nyby as film editor, Max Steiner as composer, and Carl Jules Weyl as production designer. The narrative is set in Los Angeles and features the character Philip Marlowe.
The film has received various critical and audience ratings. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.9 based on 94,306 votes, a Metascore of 86, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 96%. On TMDb, it has a vote average of 7.592 from 1,154 votes. The production had a budget of 250,000 and generated revenue of 10,682,000. The film is rated Approved and has won two awards.
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Film · TMDB
7.6Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe
- Lauren Bacall as Vivian Sternwood Rutledge
- John Ridgely as Eddie Mars
- Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood
- Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody
- Charles Waldron as General Sternwood
Themes
- based on novel or book
- gambling
- poison
- blackmail
- detective
- drug addiction
- sister
- film noir
- murder
- private investigator
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
94,158 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
86/100
- Year
- 1946
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 2 wins total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Howard Hawks
- Screenplay by
- William Faulkner , Leigh Brackett , Jules Furthman
- Based on
- The Big Sleep , 1939 novel, by Raymond Chandler
- Produced by
- Howard Hawks
- Starring
- Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Martha Vickers Dorothy Malone
- Cinematography
- Sidney Hickox
- Edited by
- Christian Nyby
- Music by
- Max Steiner
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- August 23, 1946 ( 1946-08-23 ) ( New York City premiere) August 31, 1946 ( 1946-08-31 ) (US)
- Running time
- 114 minutes , (released cut) 116 minutes , (re-released original cut)
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.6 million
- Box office
- $4.9 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Big Sleep
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Screenwriter
- Raymond Chandler
- Cast member
- Jay Eaton
- Composer
- Max Steiner
- Producer
- Howard Hawks
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Sidney Hickox
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 683323
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Bigsleep2.JPG
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- publication date
- 1946-10-12
- Commons category
- The Big Sleep (film)
- film editor
- Christian Nyby
- title
- The Big Sleep
- color
- black-and-white
- production designer
- Carl Jules Weyl
- after a work by
- Raymond Chandler
- distributed by
- Netflix
- characters
- Philip Marlowe
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.9/10
- capital cost
- 1600000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and leads to multiple murders.
Initially produced in late 1944, the film's release was delayed by more than a year because the studio wanted to release war films in anticipation of the end of World War II. A cut was released to servicemen overseas in 1945 shortly after its completion. During the delay, Bogart and Bacall married and Bacall was cast in Confidential Agent. When that movie failed, reshoots of The Big Sleep were done in early 1946 meant to take advantage of the public's fascination with "Bogie and Bacall".
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