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The Big Sleep (Bogart)£4.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £15.99 | You save: £11.00 (68%) In stock | Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
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Such a lot of guns around town, and so few brains...
One of the most satisfying and sheerly entertaining movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this marvellous 1946 classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled novel is the perfect vehicle for the real-life team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, whose sultry, zingy dialogue adds spice to what has to be the most intricate, and most exciting, thriller plot ever filmed. In the hands of screen play writers William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman and master director Howard Hawks, who slings the lamps low and keeps violence crackling, this movie zips along down Chandler's mean Los Angelino streets as Bogie's world-weary cynical private eye Philip Marlowe begins a search for a missing chauffeur that turns into a blackmail hunt with a pretty girl at each turn and a corpse on each corner. The sexual undercurrents are torrid, the repartee remarkable, the whole just simply terrific.

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Film noir at its best
inisbeag91 | 16/11/2008 | See all inisbeag91's reviews (123) »
Bacall, Bogart and a Raymond Chandler book... a perfect combination. Has everything a noir film needs. Very dark film. Chemistry between the two leads is amazing(Watch for the scene where they ring the police together). The plot needs a little time to understand fully who killed who but other than that besides The Maltese Falcon this is the best noir film around
Humphrey Bogart, Bob Steele, Elisha Cook Jr., Louis Jean Heydt, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron & Charles D. Brown | |
PG | |
1946 | |
Fullscreen 4:3 | |
English - Dolby (1.0) Mono | |
French ; Italian | |
English ; French ; Italian ; Dutch ; Arabic ; Spanish ; Portuguese ; German ; Romanian ; Bulgarian English Hard Of Hearing ; Italian Hard Of Hearing | |
1 hour and 54 minutes (approx) | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |



































