The big sleep [videorecording] / Turner Entertainment Co. ; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. presents a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; a Howard Hawks production ; screen play by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett & Jules Furthman ; [director], Howard Hawks.
Side A: 114 min.; Side B: 116 min. Title from container. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone. From the novel by Raymond Chandler. Originally released as a motion picture in 1946. Special features: "'The big sleep' comparisons 1945/1946" documentary, with UCLA archivist Robert Gitt analyzing differences between versions; Theatrical trailer; Side B: 1945 pre release version containing an additional 18 minutes which were reshot or deleted.
Contents:
Side A: 1946 theatrical version -- Side B: 1945 pre release version.
Summary:
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
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