Movie: The Big Sleep (1946)

“Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood’s favoured employee who has left with a mobster’s wife. Each of the problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}”

• Director: Howard Hawks
• Release Date:
  29 September 1967 (West Germany)
• Run Time:
  114 min | 116 min (pre-release version)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Crime , Film-Noir , Mystery , Thriller

Tagline: The type of man she hated . . . was the type she wanted !

Trivia: Mars’ henchman are named Sidney and Pete, a tribute to Bogie’s frequent costars Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.

Goofs: Continuity: Marlowe keeps 2 guns in his car – under the dash. One’s a snub-nose revolver and the other has about a six inch barrel. He uses and loses the snub-nose. Later, at Art’s garage, he reaches in and grabs the larger gun. But in the exterior scenes following, he’s got the snub-nose in his hand.