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The Big Sleep represents some major departures in the nature of the detective genre, changes that necessarily reflect the world in which it was written.Corrupt networks map out Chandler’s post-Prohibition era, be they explicitly criminal or nominally official, and it is the gray areas in between that allow the detective Philip Marlowe to exist.. Marlowe is a man both of his age and out of ...
7 de abr. de 1978 · The Big Sleep: Directed by Michael Winner. With Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark. Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
Big Sleep, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Next Time I'll Come On Stilts Coming from the sweaty greenhouse where her father hired him to pay his other daughter’s gambling debts, Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is diverted by the butler (Charles D. Brown) to other-daughter Vivian (Lauren Bacall) who thinks he’s been hired to find their missing friend Regan, their first meeting, in Howard Hawks’ The ...
THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them.
The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers).
P.I. Philip Marlowe's hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his daughter, Carmen from being blackmailed over gambling debts, Marlowe finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organised crime. With help from Vivian (another of the general's daughters), Marlowe hatches a plot to free the family ...
Título original: The Big Sleep. Sinopsis: Un general millonario y excéntrico tiene dos hijas que están involucradas en asuntos más bien turbios. Decide entonces llamar al detective privado Philip Marlowe para que resuelva sus problemas ...Puedes ver Al borde del abismo mediante Alquiler,Compra en las plataformas: Apple TV
