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The Big Sleep (1946)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Crime Thriller Mystery

The picture they were born for!

Release Date: 1946, August 22
Directors: Howard Hawks
Countries: United States of America
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Kenneth Gibson, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Perry, Louis Jean Heydt, Trevor Bardette, Shep Houghton, Suzanne Ridgway, Bess Flowers, Lauren Bacall, Tom Fadden, Emmett Vogan, Kenner G. Kemp

Overview:

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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