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The big sleep (1946) (b/w)

English · DVD

US Version | Region code 1
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includes two versions of this movie:
- 1945 prerelease version (116 mins)
- 1946 theatrical version (114 mins)

l.a. private eye philip marlowe (humphrey bogart) takes on a blackmail case... and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. but raymond chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style - and style is what the big sleep is all about. director howard hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of bogart and lauren bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore. this dvd doubles your pleasure, offering two vesions of this whodunit supreme: the familiar 1946 theatrical version (side a) full of reshot scenes of incendiary bogart/becall chemistry, and the less familiar 1945 prerelease version (side b), which recently resurfaced and whose plot and resolution are more linear in fashion.

Product details

Director	Howard Hawks
Actor	Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Label	Warner Home Video

Genre	Classics
Content	DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 12
Publication date	15.02.2000
Region code	1
Edition	b/w
Version	US Version
Original title	The Big Sleep
Year of production	1946
Length	116 Minutes
Audio	English (Mono)
Subtitles	English, French
Extras	Theatrical trailer, Audio commentary, Production notes

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Classics

Customer reviews

Unnachahmlich

Written on 18. April 2003 by dps.
This customer review refers to a alternative version.

Dieser Film gehört zum Besten, was ich je gesehen habe. Bogey ist einfach unnachahmlich, der coolste Schnüffler aller Zeiten. Aber Lauren Bacall steht ihm in nichts nach und auch die anderen Rollen in diesem Film (fast nur Frauen) sind sehr ...äh... interessant.
kultig

Written on 19. February 2003 by bigmacmike.
This customer review refers to a alternative version.

eine klassische "Bogey"-Rolle: als zynischer Schnüffler unterwegs mit dem Charme eines arroganten Machos. Heute dürfte man einen Typen, aus Gründen der political correctness, nicht mehr so darstellen. Trotzdem: für mich so ziemlich der Beste "Bogey"