The Big Sleep (1946) is Howard Hawks's film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe. Famously convoluted in plot, it became a definitive film noir and an iconic Bogart-Bacall film.
Definitive film noir; iconic Bogart-Bacall pairing; established Philip Marlowe as the archetypal hard-boiled detective.
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