The Big Sleep (1946)

Name: The Big Sleep
Released: 1946
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Elisha Cook Jr.

• Movies, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

• 114 min

7.6

The picture they were born for!

Directed by: Howard Hawks
Casting: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Waldron, Regis Toomey, Louis Jean Heydt, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen, Charles D. Brown, Bob Steele, Sonia Darrin, Trevor Bardette, Joy Barlow, Max Barwyn, Deannie Best, Tanis Chandler, Jack Chefe, James Conaty, Joseph Crehan, Jack Deery, Carole Douglas, Jay Eaton, Tom Fadden, Bess Flowers, Kenneth Gibson, Joe Gilbert, Stuart Hall, Shep Houghton, Kenner G. Kemp, Pete Kooy, Lorraine Miller, Forbes Murray, William H. O'Brien, Shelby Payne, Jack Perry, Tommy Rafferty, Waclaw Rekwart, Edward Rickard, Jeffrey Sayre, Emmett Vogan, Theodore von Eltz, Wally Walker, Dan Wallace, Paul Weber, Ben Welden, Suzanne Ridgway
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1946-08-23
Status: Released

Tags: based on novel or book, gambling, poison, blackmail, detective, drug addiction, sister, film noir, murder, private investigator, whodunit, los angeles, california, private detective, book store, missing person, prank telephone call, wealthy family

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.