The Big Sleep (1946) is a classic film noir directed by Howard Hawks. The film follows private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) as he is hired by a wealthy family to investigate a case of blackmail. Marlowe soon finds himself in a web
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The Big Sleep is a 1939 hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles.