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	The Big Sleep (1946 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bogart and Bacall in The Big Sleep (1946)
		The Big Sleep (1946) was the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name.
		Once the war ended, and Warner Bros. planned to release The Big Sleep, the "Bogie and Bacall" phenomenon caused by their electric appearance in To Have and Have Not as well as their subsequent marriage, was in full swing.
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	Big Sleep Futons - Location
		Big Sleep Futons is located at 502 W. Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear City, California, at the Big Bear Lake four-season resort paradise in the beautiful San Bernardino Mountains.
		Big Sleep Futons is directly across from the Airport (close to Big Tree Drive) in Big Bear City, three doors past Circle K on the same side of the street.
		Big Sleep Futons is directly across from the Airport (at Big Tree Drive) in Big Bear City.
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	Encyclopedia: The Big Sleep (1946 film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Big Sleep (1946) was the first movie version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name.
		Her significance is much enhanced by the film in comparison to the novel, to the extent of the suggestion of the permanence of the relationship between her and Marlowe.
		It is difficult to see how his novel The Big Sleep, fits into this description, but possibly by the inclusion of scenes with representatives of the state system (the police, the D.A., Gregory of the Bureau of missing persons,) the unravelling of the mystery becomes possible and the plot of the novel plausible.
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	The Big Sleep
		Howard Hawks' THE BIG SLEEP (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is a very complicated film.
		Warner Bros. decided to improve THE BIG SLEEP, adding more of the snappy, sultry dialogue between Bogart and Bacall (most notably, the horse racing conversation) which had made TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT so popular.
		Unfortunately, while this made THE BIG SLEEP into a true film-noir classic, Warners also decided to cut a few scenes from the original (1945) version of the film to keep its length manageable, and the result is a plot that, even after repeated viewings, is almost incomprehensible.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: The Big Sleep (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"The Big Sleep" was finished by Warner Brothers in 1945, but held out of release while the studio rushed to play off its backlog of World War II movies.
		What Feldman missed, he said, was the "insolence" that Bacall showed in "To Have and Have Not." In the original version of "The Big Sleep," the relationship between Bogart and Bacall is problematical: Marlowe isn't sure whether he trusts this cool, elegant charmer.
		And the fascinating subtext in "The Big Sleep" is that in Bacall he found his match.
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	Emap Esprit - Inspiring you for life
		Six out of 10 mums say lack of sleep has 'put their relationship under immense strain', 'causes rows' and both they and their partner 'are too tired for anything' (60%).
		Baby exhaustion is compounded by the fact that so many couples both work nowadays leaving parents no time to catch up on missed sleep and sadly, one in 10 couples feel so frazzled by the lack of sleep they feel on the 'verge of splitting up' and 3% 'have already split up'.
		They spend an average of 56 minutes getting baby to sleep in the evening and are then up THREE times a night to feed or settle their crying child.
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	DVDFILE.COM: The Big Sleep review
		I love THE BIG SLEEP, despite the fact that I've seen it a hundred times and still have no idea what the hell is going on.
		THE BIG SLEEP has more atmosphere and snappy dialogue than five other movies put together, and of course the legendary Bogie/Bacall chemistry.
		The laserdisc of this film was pretty bad, and the DVD actually is better: but it's really a shame that Warner couldn't come up with a better print of a movie that is loved by so many people.
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	The Big Sleep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The full length novel of The Big Sleep was the first written by Raymond Chandler, created from four of his short stories.
		To Have and To Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories' (16) Howard Hawks had worked for many years in the Hollywood system, his first full length film was made in 1926 (Road to Glory).
		The influences of institutional censorship and psychological censorship from the Hawks unconscious, interplay to create the final solution to life, rather The Big Sleep is the sleep of dreams, not death, dreams of love, utopia not dystopia, not corruption and power, but the ultimate relationship.
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	Images - Film Noir
		Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep.
		The Big Sleep's narrative convolution is, far from being frustrating, a major source of joy in the film.
		In the dangerous night world of The Big Sleep, on its deserted rain-slicked streets and in its cold ritzy mansions, the capable Marlowe is truly surprised only once: when he discovers unadulterated loyalty and love in the least likely place.
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	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Her highly influential agent, Charles Feldman, urged Warner to revise The Big Sleep in order to repair the damage, and most of the reshooting and reediting--and, in at least one instance, redubbing--was carried out in strict accordance with his suggestions.
		During the initial shoot on The Big Sleep, Bogart was still married to someone else and fitfully trying to make that marriage work, and Hawks, who may have had designs of his own on Bacall, was mainly interested in keeping his two stars apart when they weren't working together.
		After all, Hawks's next picture after The Big Sleep was the linear (if somewhat episodic) Red River, and a lot more classical storytelling was to come in pictures like I Was a Male War Bride, The Thing From Another World, The Big Sky, and Land of the Pharaohs.
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	Review: The Big Sleep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Big Sleep, published in 1939, was the first of seven Philip Marlowe novels written by Chandler.
		The Big Sleep is credited with having one of the most confusing storylines of any motion picture ever made.
		The effective re-working of The Big Sleep makes a convincing argument that sometimes the first cut of a film is not the best (this, of course, flies in the face of the claims of "purists", who believe that re-shoots are always negative).
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	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Big Sleep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In The Big Sleep Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood to track down a flmailer who is trying to extort money out of him with nude pictures of his daughter Carmen.
		The plot of The Big Sleep is complex, leading Howard Hawks, the first and most successful of the filmmakers to adapt it for the movies, to say that he never did understand who killed one of the characters--and when he telegraphed Chandler for clarification, Chandler himself was unable to provide a definitive answer.
		Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946) is better realized than the Michael Winner version in 1978 which starred Robert Mitchum and is set not in California (where many hard-boiled novels and films are set, and from which they take their flavor), but in London of the 1970s.
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	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Magazine \| The big sleep
		There is a fascination with this deep state of unconscious, a "twilight zone" between life and death and a place few of us ever explore.
		It is a state of deep unconsciousness, in which an individual is unable to respond to external stimuli.
		At first, doctors said it would be a miracle if she lasted 12 hours and in the following days they gave her parents the option of switching off the life-support machine because they feared the brain damage would be so severe.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Big Sleep
		The Big Sleep is a slice of Hollywood history as complicated as a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, the most obvious reason being the plot, which takes on such a labyrinthine complexity that nobody can figure out the entire story on first viewing.
		However, before long Marlowe discovers that some members of the family are not on his side, including older daughter Vivian Sternwood Rutledge (Lauren Bacall), forcing him to constantly guess at peoples' motivations as he works his way through a series of cheats, crooks, and killers in a desperate attempt to solve the case.
		Thanks to Warner, our enjoyment of The Big Sleep is enhanced that much more, since both versions are presented on this disc in their entirety.
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	Images - The Big Sleep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		he Big Sleep is one of the best detective genre films Hollywood ever produced.
		The Big Sleep introduced hard-boiled shamus Philip Marlowe and follows his attempt to solve a seamy case of flmail and murder.
		With the recent discovery and DVD release of a 1945 prerelease version alongside the familiar 1946 version, the reason for this becomes clearer.
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	Wings: The Big Sleep - TV.com
		We don't have allusions for The Big Sleep.
		We don't have notes for The Big Sleep.
		We don't have trivia for The Big Sleep.
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	The Big Sleep (1978)
		No, this is not the "Big Sleep" made in 1945 (but released in 1946 after some editing) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
		All these characters of course turn out to be related and a fair amount of them will experience "The Big Sleep" (Chandler's euphemism for "death") at some point in the film.
		The Big Sleep is a 1978 remake that is far closer to the original Raymond Chandler novel, except it is set in London in the 1970s instead of Los Angeles in the 1940s.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Big Sleep [1946]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She, despite a 25-year age difference his equal in everything from grit and toughness to mysterious appeal; chillier than bourbon on the rocks, possessing more than just a touch of class whatever her role; and long since a bona fide AFI movie legend in her own right.
		They were reunited two years later for this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's first Philip Marlowe novel "The Big Sleep" (1939), based on a screenplay written, like that of "To Have and Have Not," by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, together with Leigh Brackett (who had not participated in scripting the Hemingway adaptation).
		Reprising Bogart's noir gumshoe role with a character not unlike Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon," the movie "The Big Sleep" is as infamous as Chandler's literary original for its labyrinthine plot, which reportedly even the author himself couldn't completely untangle (nor did he care to).
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	Encyclopedia article: The Big Sleep (1946 film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Big Sleep (1946) was the first movie version of Raymond Chandler (United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)) 's 1939 novel (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) of the same name.
		The film was directed by Howard Hawks (additional info and facts about Howard Hawks).
		The movie set the standard for film noir (additional info and facts about film noir) for years to come and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry (additional info and facts about National Film Registry).
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	Film Talk -> The Big Sleep (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This has got to be one of if not the best film-noir I have seen so far! The title, The Big Sleep, is a reference to death which is a theme that fits the story well.
		While I can't say this is easy to follow, The Big Sleep is well worth the concentration necessary to put all the pieces together.
		The Big Sleep is easily one of my five favorite films ever made.
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	Big sleep Books Newsletter
		Big Sleep would like to help with the problem by highlighting books of high quality published in 2005.
		While this is a generous number for your selection, the Big Sleep gift certificate is available for those who prefer not to make a choice.
		No matter she is a "big girl", living at home, Irish and Catholic to boot, she can feel the calling to a career in journalism, notwithstanding the Protestant male reporters in the newsroom.
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	The Big Sleep (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was the only time he played Marlowe, but it stuck… Bogart as Marlowe is a rock of logic in a carousel of shady characters with clear psychological motivations for only partially explained actions...
		When it first appeared, "The Big Sleep" was attacked in some quarters for violence and amorality— but beneath its cynicism and toughness there breathed a heart and sentimentality which he1p to make it timeless…
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Big Sleep (1946)
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	The Big Sleep (1946)
		The Big Sleep (1946) is one of Raymond Chandler's best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed into a film noir, private detective film classic.
		It is a very complex, confusing, logic-defying whodunit with a quintessential private detective (Marlowe), false leads, unforgettable dialogue and wisecracks, raw-edged characters, sexy women (including the two daughters of a dying millionaire, a bookseller, and others), tough action, gunplay, a series of electrifying scenes, and screen violence.
		The humid hothouse is necessary for his survival and he is waiting for death - the "big sleep" of the title - in the temperature-controlled greenhouse:
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	The Big Sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Big Sleep is a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, with two film versions, one filmed in 1946, and one filmed in 1978.
		Phillips, Gene D. Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir, Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky.
		Roger Ebert's review of The Big Sleep in his Great Movies [1]
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	Amazon.com: The Big Sleep (Theatrical Version) (1946) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE BIG SLEEP has a reputation for being a film that gets lost in its own complexity and which fails to clearly identify all the perpetrators of all the murders that litter its scenes.
		Although the film really pre-dates the film noir movement the entire look of THE BIG SLEEP anticipates noir to a remarkable degree--it would be tremendously influential--and director Hawks gives everything a sharp edge from start to finish.
		Two versions of THE BIG SLEEP are included on the DVD: the film as it was originally shot and the film as it was released to theatres in 1946.
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	The Big Sleep
		He must settle instead for four afternoons a week as a music-making "recreational therapist" in a nursing home for the elderly, where he discovers Marla Gibbs, who used to be a forties jazz chanteuse but now won't even talk to anybody.
		Big Mama (may 30; 7:30 to 8:10 p.m.; Cinemax) is a Reel Life documentary short on an 89-year-old grandmother's struggle against all odds to raise her orphaned 9-year-old grandson in South Central Los Angeles.
		Not only did the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services take Walter away from Viola Dees and dump him in a foster home, but it also tried to block the release of what we are seeing, from first-time filmmaker Tracy Seretean.
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	Amazon.com: The Big Sleep: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE BIG SLEEP reads with tremendous speed and power, creating a portrait of a seamy world ruled by bisexual pornographers, purring hitmen, cheap hoods, and enameled dames determined to have their way no matter what--a fascinating collection of everything small and mean and gutter common.
		It seems that Chandler is still working out the style and form later expressed so gallantly in "The Long Goodbye." "The Big Sleep" is classic Chandler; there is plenty of the gritty atmosphere, amusing wordplay and slang, and despicable characters found in Chandler's later novels.
		Even a somewhat confusing story line does not cause much damage to the entertainment value of "The Big Sleep." You still get the classic snappy dialogue between Marlowe and everyone he encounters, and that is always fun to read.
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