The Big Sleep

L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case. and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style - and style is what The Big Sleep is all about. Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore. This Blu-ray doubles your pleasure, offering two versions of this whodunit supreme: the familiar 1946 theatrical version, full of re-edit scenes of incendiary Bogart/Bacall chemistry, and the less-familiar 1945 prerelease version, as a special feature, whose plot and resolution are more linear in fashion.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, 1945 alternate version; 'The Big Sleep' comparisons 1945-1946; Introduction by Robert Gitt., Trailers

Actors: Charles Waldron, Regis Toomey, Humphrey Bogart, Martha Vickers, Charles D. Brown, John Ridgely, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen, Lauren Bacall, Bob Steele

Audio Languages: English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Spanish

Duration: 114 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Spanish

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