The Big sleep [DVD] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, & Jules Furthman ; directed by Howard Hawks.
Format:
[DVD] /
Publisher:
Warner Home Video
Copyright Date:
1997
Description:
1 videodisc (230 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 scene index.
"From the novel by Raymond Chandler.". Originally released as motion picture in 1945 and 1946. Dolby digital, mono. Includes both the 1946 theatrical release (Side A, 114 min.) and the 1945 pre-release version (Side B, 116 min.). Includes a comparison of the two versions by Robert Gitt. Donation. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgley, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey.
Summary:
Millionaire Gen. Sternwood hires private detective Philip Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing his young, loose daughter, Carmen, with pornographic pictures. Marlowe gets involved in a web of sex, blackmail, and murder.
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