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The Big Sleep

The picture they were born for!

1946 · NR · 1h 54m

Directed by Howard Hawks

7.6

TMDB audience score
1,217 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Private 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.

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Cast

  • Humphrey Bogart
    Philip Marlowe

  • Lauren Bacall
    Vivian Sternwood Rutledge

  • John Ridgely
    Eddie Mars

  • Martha Vickers
    Carmen Sternwood

  • Louis Jean Heydt
    Joe Brody

  • Charles Waldron
    General Sternwood

  • Regis Toomey
    Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls

  • Sonia Darrin
    Agnes Lowzier (uncredited)

  • Elisha Cook Jr.
    Harry Jones

  • Bob Steele
    Lash Canino

  • Dorothy Malone
    Acme Bookstore Proprietress

  • Peggy Knudsen
    Mona Mars

  • Charles D. Brown
    Norris the Butler

  • Trevor Bardette
    Art Huck (uncredited)

  • Joy Barlow
    Taxi Driver (uncredited)

  • Max Barwyn
    Max - Head Waiter (uncredited)

  • Deannie Best
    Waitress (uncredited)

  • Tanis Chandler
    Waitress (uncredited)