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by George_Chabot  in Movies,  - Top 50, Dec 10 '02
Pros: Bogart, Bacall, Supporting Cast, Dialog, Cinematography, Direction, Score
Cons: Bacall cannot sing
Mrs. Rutledge: "I don't like your manners!" Philip Marlowe: "I don't like them either. I grieve over them long winter nights." The Big Sleep is a stylish, atmospheric crime thriller that confirmed Humphrey Bogart as the king of film ...
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by proxam - Top 500, Jul 14 '04
Pros: Style, atmosphere, and everything else
Cons: None for me
As regards my reading choices growing up, I graduated from the cutesy tomes of 'The famous Five' and 'Biggles', almost seamlessly into the gritty darkness of Raymond Chandler. Similarly, around the same time, my tastes in films went from ...
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by spelvini in Movies, , Jun 23 '05
Pros: An excellent cast, remastered print, and DVD features!
Cons: Some of the edited stuff from 1945 could be put back in.
Based on Raymond Chandler's first novel from 1939, "The Big Sleep" is every bit the quintessential detective Film Noir. Starring Humphrey Bogart and the young model-turned-actress, Lauren Bacall, directed by Howard Hawks and sporting a crackerjack ...
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by Stairway2Drew - Top 500, Jan 12 '04
Pros: classic
Cons: convoluted in spots
PREFACE: All right, this one was originally written as an essay for a film class, explaining the relevance and importance of a film on the AFI's top 100 - as such, it's much more formal a review than I'd ever write normally, and perhaps unindictative ...
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by Ed.Williamson - Top 200, Jun 13 '07
Pros: Film noire at its best.
Cons: Even though interesting, you have to work to follow the plot.
"Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!" Raymond Chandler, a stylish writer who lived in the first half of twentieth-century America, wrote a number of crime stories and novels which set the tone for much of the whole field of crime and ...
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by talyseon, , Jan 17 '09
Pros: Everything.
Cons: Had to dance around the Hays code; but you can still read between the lines.
The Big Sleep (1946) Directed by Howard Hawks.Vivian: What will your first step be? Philip Marlowe: The usual one. Vivian: I didn't know there was a usual one. Philip Marlowe: Well sure there is, it ...
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by BrianKoller - Top 50, Sep 23 '99
Pros: cast, script, very entertaining
Cons: characters, confusing plot, endless murders
"The Big Sleep" is the second of four films that Humphrey Bogart made with Lauren Bacall. It is also the second most famous detective film that Bogart made, after "The Maltese Falcon".
"The Big Sleep" is an...
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by M.S. , Dec 24 '99
Pros: Great...lighting, acting, scripting -- and the indescribably wonderful work of that chameleon-like director, Howard Hawks.
Cons: Dated, and at its best on a big screen.
By Max Scheinin.
Note: I wrote this review a couple of years back, and it may not sound much like my current writing. Still, I think I did a fine job of communicating everything that needed to be said about this wonderful film. And given my...
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by WiseMan4 , May 24 '00
Pros: Exciting and dark
Cons: co-on? What is this con you speak of?
Humphrey Bogart's best, this simple yarn will keep you guessing, even those of you prejudiced against black and white films, subtitling and widescreen. This film should be thrust forward as THE film noir movie. It has all the rules of the genre...
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by Meteorman68 , Jul 09 '00
Pros: Solid mystery, and splendid big name performances
Cons: a convoluted story, but this happened with the book also
The novel was purportedly penned in three weeks, and by the time the story made it to the big screen some changes were ultimately made but the plot basically follows Chandlers noir masterpiece, and Bogie and Bacall do a good Marlowe, the wise cracking...
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