I love movies & music .... especially fim noir and sci fi! To name but a few!!
I love movies & music .... especially fim noir and sci fi! To name but a few!!
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Bogart doesn't get much better than this. Based on Raymond Chandlers classic novel this is a tightly paced detective thriller which never lets up all the way through. ......Very complexly plotted ...so you'll need to have your wits about you when watching........in fact this is so complex that even the writer ....when asked who killed the butler...didn't know the answer! There's a great teaming up again with Lauren Bacall and excellent character actors along the way such as Elisha Cook Jr . Also Dorothy malone in that wonderfull scene in the bookstore. By the way the scene where Humphrey Bogart poses as an eccentric collector of rare books and turns his hat up , wears dark glasses......... was his own idea and not John Hustons. The dialogue crackles and this is one film i've seen so many times and enjoyed it even more on each repeated viewing..........this is definitely one of my favourite film noir's of all time. As a matter of interest Dick Powell the former crooner turned actor also played Phillip Marlowe in the film Farewell My Lovely and very near as good it was too.......some say better........but for me there's only one Bogart!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!!! Just like to add that the DVD version is superbly remastered with top notch picture quality and also carries the original theatrical trailer.
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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made screen history together more than once, but they ... more
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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains... One of the most satisfying and ... more
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 t...
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Advantages: Bogart and Bacall sizzle; the dialogue crackles; everything is nigh perfect Disadvantages: I could lie and tell you there are any, but i won't
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Review of The Big Sleep (DVD)
Advantages: Bogart and Bacall sizzle; the dialogue crackles; everything is nigh perfect Disadvantages: I could lie and tell you there are any, but i won't
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Review of The Big Sleep (DVD)
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May 14th, 2004
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