Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on The Big Sleep (1946)

Big Sleep, The - (Original Trailer)

Private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) investigates a society girl's involvement in the murder of a pornographer in The Big Sleep.

Big Sleep, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Lot Of Guns

From his stake-out Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) spies Vivian (Lauren Bacall) and follows her into the apartment where shiftless Joe (Louis Jean Heydt) and Agnes (Sonia Darrin) are up to not-yet-revealed tricks, in Howard Hawks' version of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, 1946.

Big Sleep, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Like Marcel Proust

Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) back to the office, for his not-planned second meeting with cagey Vivian (Lauren Bacall), whose father is his client and whose sister is the blackmail victim, the literary reference directly from Raymond Chandler's novel, in The Big Sleep, 1946.

Big Sleep, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Ben-Hur 1860

Mostly a comic interlude for Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe on the job, scamming bogus bookseller Agnes (Sonia Darrin), then making very quick time with the competition across the street (Dorothy Malone), from Howard Hawks in The Big Sleep, 1946.

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 Big Sleep, 1946.

Big Sleep, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Doghouse Reilly

Humphrey Bogart enters as Philip Marlowe, in the William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett screen treatment of Raymonnd Chandler's novel, meeting Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers) and the general (Charles Waldron), opening Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep, 1946, co-starring Lauren Bacall.