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Harold B. Lee Library

The Big Sleep

The Big SleepDirected and Produced by Howard Hawks
The Big Sleep

  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Date: Friday, January 29, 2010
  • Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event:
Starring Humphrew Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgley, Martha Vickers, Elisha Cook, Jr.“If Little Caesar (1931) was the studio’s quintessential crime melodrama,” writes Clive Hirschhorn, “The Big Sleep was its most characteristic thriller with the look, the feel, and the sound of it unmistakably belonging to Warner Bros.” Humphrey Bogart is Raymond Chandler’s world-weary gumshoe detective Philip Marlowe in this perennially popular and somewhat baffling murder mystery that costars Bogart’s real-life wife, Lauren Bacall, as the fetching divorcee with whom he becomes romantically involved. The literate script, by noted author (and Hawks’s friend) William Faulkner, with Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman, bristles with underworld vernacular and is infectiously entertaining, even though Hawks and his screenwriters admitted that they could not figure out the film’s plot.

Warner Bros. 1946. 114 mins. Director: Howard Hawks.