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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep follows private detective Philip Marlowe as he is summoned to the mansion of his new client General Sternwood. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
17 April 1903, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
9 September 1903, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
4 June 1914, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
4 November 1884, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
17 January 1898, Sandusky, Ohio, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
6 January 1895, Bayard, Iowa, USA
8 September 1893, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
June 24, 2006
This is arguably the high-water mark of Hollywood's love affair with the infinitely slippery possibilities of the English language.
March 07, 2014
The Big Sleep is wakeful fare for folks who don't care what is going on, or why, so long as the talk is hard and the action harder.
October 04, 2016
Classic noir gem has menace, innuendo.
July 18, 2008
Brittle Chandler characters have been transferred to the screen with punch by Howard Hawks' production and direction, providing full load of rough, tense action most of the way.
August 13, 2014
The Big Sleep is the best scripted, best directed, best acted, and least comprehensible film noir ever made.
May 20, 2003
It's likely to leave you confused and dissatisfied.
March 07, 2014
The Big Sleep is as fresh and perverse as ever, and remains one of Hollywood's most entrancingly strange bedtime stories.
July 18, 2008
What you remember here are moments.
February 22, 2017
The plethora of killings now seems on the whole less horrific than it once did, while the film's tone of escalating absurdity in a genuinely dark world grows if anything even more sprightly as the years go by.
August 30, 2012
The Big Sleep, though, is witty and sinister, and in an odd way is a realistic portrayal of big-city life with Arabian Nights overtones.
