BIG SLEEP, THE (1946)
Looking to recapture the Bogie-Bacall magic of 1944's TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, director Howard Hawks selected this Raymond Chandler whodunit as a vehicle to showcase more of the pair's smart talk. Hired to investigate the blackmailing of society wild child Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers), private dick Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), falls for her classy, sassy older sister Vivian (Lauren Bacall). The famously byzantine plot — murders proliferate, solutions do not — and the lurid hint of drug use and pornography behind Carmen's blackmailing provide ample intrigue, but it's all a backdrop for the racy, innuendo-laced repartee. DIR/PROD Howard Hawks; SCR William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, from the novel by Raymond Chandler. U.S., 1946, b&w, 116 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, June 30, 2023
Genre: Film noir
