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The Big Sleep

Leaving January 31 • 1h 53m

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1946 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely

Humphrey Bogart steps into the legendary gumshoes of Raymond Chandler’s famed detective Philip Marlowe in what is widely regarded as the finest screen adaptation of the writer’s work. The famously byzantine plot—almost avant-garde in its privileging of sinister, hard-boiled atmosphere over narrative logic—follows Marlowe as he accepts the blackmail case of one of Los Angeles’s wealthiest men, leading him deep into a web of lies, drugs, pornography, and murder woven around his client’s two beautiful daughters. But Marlowe's most startling discovery is his attraction to one of the sisters—played by Lauren Bacall, whose innuendo-laden chemistry with Bogie, in the second of their immortal pairings, practically scorches the screen.

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