The Big Sleep (1946)

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Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love (imdb)

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Genres: Crime, Mystery

Country: USA

Directed By: Howard Hawks

Written By: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Jules Furthman

Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen, Elisha Cook Jr., Regis Toomey, Louis Jean Heydt, Charles D. Brown, Charles Waldron, Bob Steele

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Mar 25	GFoster	51 _31%
Mar 24	Frank XVI	100 _97%
Mar 24	tommyb	90 _60%
Mar 24	vildanden	70 _71%
Mar 22	jdnolla	85 _52%
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Feb 24	Movies14916	93 _78%
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Feb 21	MortSahlFan	50 _11%
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Jan 06	Chuck92	70 _36%
Jan 06	gossamer2019	80 _84%
Jan 06	lefterisd99	70 _59%
Jan 04	schnofel	48 _35%
Some sweet and sexy moments between Bogie and the ladies ("she tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up"), and nice texture, but all this plot and talk wears me out. Picks up at the end with some gunplay and luscious Lauren Bacall looks.
Jan 04	ElsaH	89 _85%
Jan 04	Kabbjeh	70 _69%
Jan 01	bko	85 _86%
Dec 27, 2018	baronliu	78 _91%
Dec 23, 2018	knives	77 _59%
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Dec 16, 2018	isitfallacy	73 _67%
Dec 15, 2018	inemuri	80 _61%
Dec 10, 2018	Tazurel	90 _84%
Dec 10, 2018	comepelicula	70 _69%
I was just setting myself to expand my noir watched movies and I came across this gem, it has all the classic elements of the genre and is very entertaining to watch. It is a delight to watch Bogie as a private eye going with the flow of a cluster of different circumstances to try to solve a mystery which doesn’t really matter much and flirting with every woman along the way. There is just something very appealing in the noir genre.
Dec 07, 2018	Modaal	88 _48%
Dec 05, 2018	mathiasa	80 _%
Dec 04, 2018	peyrin	70 _51%
There's enough sleuthing and maneuvering here for an entire season of television, let alone a film under 2 hours. Nevertheless, no denying that it's a decently airtight mystery coated in a slick Hollywood noir style.
Dec 03, 2018	fakesenator	65 _43%
Dec 03, 2018	worrywirt	70 _53%
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Nov 30, 2018	vitruvian	85 _57%
Nov 27, 2018	sourheart	84 _41%
Very interestingly cut and Bogart is the best leading man, somehow.
Nov 25, 2018	misterfinch	80 _56%
Nov 23, 2018	Lonewolf2003	85 _89%
who cares about the plot making total sense if every scenes features ingenious dialogue as this.
Nov 21, 2018	sinefil1994	84 _66%
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Aug 18, 2018	tsP6d4	9 _%
Aug 18, 2018	edmola	87 _88%
Aug 17, 2018	snallygaster	53 _53%
Aug 11, 2018	CosmicMonkey	73 _41%
It seems that most reviewers are willing to forgive the confusing labyrinthine plot in favour of atmosphere, dialogue and the chemistry between the leads, but I don't agree: There are noirs with far more intoxicating atmospheres, noirs with far more stylistic dialogue and noirs with better chemistry. Heck, this isn't even the best Bogart-Bacall film. At the end of the day, I didn't know what was going on, and didn't experience anything that had alreayd been done better in the genre.
Aug 09, 2018	Fritz Fass	95 _98%
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Apr 03, 2018	Philosofem	89 _91%
Mar 23, 2018	horrorjames	50 _43%
Mar 21, 2018	mattorama12	75 _78%
Like everybody else, I found this great in all respects, except for the wildly intricate plot. But that does detract from things quite a bit. Nonetheless, damn Bogey is great. Actually overtakes Treasure of the Sierra Madre as my favorite Bogey performance.
Mar 20, 2018	apsays	63 _52%
Mar 20, 2018	robochaa	90 _90%
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Mar 04, 2018	bhajansunlo	70 _61%
Mar 01, 2018	Ceekay19	50 _14%
Marlowe: "I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Feb 25, 2018	halilky	87 _42%
Feb 21, 2018	Pickle_Man	85 _64%
The plot is convoluted but it's not a huge drawback since the movie is so dialogue driven. Bogart is great, as usual, Bacall is ok.
Feb 17, 2018	coldesser	90 _94%
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Oct 01, 2017	CesarCastag (CinePlayers.com)	60 _40%
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Sep 07, 2017	funmovies	100 _82%
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Aug 28, 2017	volken	80 _72%
Aug 28, 2017	codax	9 _94%
Aug 26, 2017	Emir Han	74 _40%
Considering the fact that there were no successful noir pictures in 1940s, The Big Sleep is an interesting work yet it's confusing and hard to follow the added characters and especially byplays..
Aug 22, 2017	freestate	85 _94%
Aug 20, 2017	Curb	92 _94%
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