The Big Sleep

This classic film was the first to bring Raymond Chandler`s famous detective Phillip Marlowe to the big-screen. The Big Sleep features magnificent dialogue and unbelievably powerful chemistry between stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The plot is so complicated that even Chandler himself didn`t know who committed one of the murders, but essentially Bogie is the flatfoot hired by wealthy dame Bacall to watch out for her irrepressibly wild younger sister. Their time together on-screen more than makes up for any plot-based stumbling blocks, and this is easily one of the greatest detective stories ever put to celluloid.

DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33

Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and The Big Sleep set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in their wake. The famously tortuous story line (Hawks supposedly asked Chandler to clarify a plot point about the murder of the family chauffeur; the novelist hadn't a clue as to who did the deed) seems beside the point when Bogart and Bacall are onscreen. The final release was recut to include more of their scenes together. A must! Remade in 1978.

Private investigator Philip Marlowe is thrust into a world of drugs, sex, blackmail, and murder when he agrees to protect a rich man's reckless, uncontrollable daughter.