The Big Sleep

Quote: from the film Lady in the Lake Adrienne Fromsett: [Adrienne pitches Marlowe's story to publisher Derace Kingsby] And he's a very well-known private detective. That's what makes the stuff so authentic. So full of life and vigor and heart. So full of... what would you say it was full of, Mr. Marlowe? Philip Marlowe: Short sentences. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release date(s) January 23, 1947 running time 105 minutes Directed by Robert Montgomery Produced by George Haight Cinematography by Paul Vogel Musical Score by David Snell Edited by Gene Ruggiero The Story by author Raymond Chandler and Screenplay by Steve Fisher Another Sizzling Murder Mystery by ... Read Full Story

The thought would have hit gumshoe Philip Marlowe as soon as the bus pulled up: "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." Actually, what I really had was a notebook, a pen and a digital recorder — oh yeah, and a seat on Esotouric's Raymond Chandler Bus Tour. I had decided to learn whether L.A. really is, as Chandler's hard-bitten detective Philip Marlowe once said, "just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style." To ... Read Full Story

The thought hit as soon as the bus pulled up: "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." Actually, what I really had was a notebook, a pen and a digital recorder. Oh yeah, and a seat on Esotouric's Raymond Chandler Bus Tour, having decided to learn whether L.A. really is, as Chandler's hard-bitten detective Philip Marlowe once said, "just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style." To find out, I would have to get ... Read Full Story

The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler’s cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General’s sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers). This earns Marlowe the displeasure of Carmen’s sloe-eyed, seemingly straight-laced older sister Vivian (Bacall), who is fiercely protective of her somewhat addled sibling. As he pursues the case at hand, Marlowe gets mixed up in the murder of Arthur Geiger (Theodore von Eltz), a dealer in pornography. He also runs afoul of gambling-house proprietor Eddie ... Read Full Story

T he Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse … For more @: T he Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler For more Books: Books Read Full Story