The big sleep: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone. Key Largo: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, The big sleep based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Key Largo based on the play by Maxwell Anderson.
Contents:
[Disc 1]. The big sleep (1946, 114 mins.) -- [disc 2]. Key Largo (1948, 100 mins.).
Summary:
The big sleep: 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. Key Largo: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
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