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directed by Howard Hawks
The picture they were born for!
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.

Humphrey Bogart
Philip Marlowe

Lauren Bacall
Vivian Sternwood Rutledge

John Ridgely
Eddie Mars

Martha Vickers
Carmen Sternwood

Louis Jean Heydt
Joe Brody
Charles Waldron
General Sternwood

Regis Toomey
Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls

Sonia Darrin
Agnes Lowzier (uncredited)
Director
Howard Hawks
Language
EN
Budget
$250,000
Box Office
$11M
The Big Sleepby Raymond Chandler (1939)
Hawks and Bogart immortalized Chandler's Marlowe β the novel's plot is famously unsolvable even by Chandler himself
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