Big Sleep (The)
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Writer: William Faulkner; Leigh Brackett
- Producer: Jack L. Warner; Howard Hawks
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The Big Sleep is the story of a private investigator, named Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his youngest daughter, Carmen, from being blackmailed about her gambling debts; things almost immediately unravel and blow up from here, as Marlowe finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organized crime. Marlowe, with the help of the General's eldest daughter, Vivian, skillfully plot to free the family from this web and trap the main main behind much of this mischief, Eddie, to meet his end at the hands of his own henchmen.
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Cast & Characters
Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe;
Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge;
John Ridgely as Eddie Mars;
Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood;
Dorothy Malone as Acme Book Shop Proprietress;
Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars;
Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls;
Charles Waldron as General Sternwood;
Charles D. Brown as Norris - the Butler;
Bob Steele as Lash Canino;
Elisha Cook Jr. as Harry Jones;
Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody;
Trevor Bardette as Art Huck;
Joy Barlow as Taxi Driver;
Max Barwyn as Max - Head Waiter