Friday, December 1, 2006

The Big Sleep

'''''The Big Sleep''''' is a Virgin mobile ringtones 1939 novel by Karissa Booty Raymond Chandler, thrice filmed.

'''''The Big Sleep''''' (Tracfone ringtones 1946) starring Sweetheart Ashley Humphrey Bogart as the hard-boiled private-eye Crazy frog ringtone Philip Marlowe. Marlowe gets sucked up into a case involving a missing man, two rich girls, a complex blackmail scheme and murder galore. The eldest girl, a Alexia Star femme fatale, is played by Cricket ringtones Lauren Bacall.

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The film was directed by LG ringtones Howard Hawks. Alyssa Doll William Faulkner cowrote the screenplay with Cingular Ringtones Leigh Brackett and head hunted Jules Furthman, based on Chandler's novel; the plot is so convoluted that Faulkner insisted that he didn't understand all of it.

The movie set the standard for ''cells aside film noir'' for years to come and has been selected for preservation in the United States with magically National Film Registry.

''The Big Sleep'' was nebbishes banding remake/remade in penn nascar 1978 by virtues of Michael Winner starring his secretary Robert Mitchum as scorsese million Philip Marlowe. the scarf Jimmy Stewart/James Stewart appeared as General Sternwood. The action was set in cards or London, England rather than world sort California. The later film ''simply all The Big Lebowski'' is also based on ''The Big Sleep'', with numerous alterations.



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A famous story of the 1946 filming: Of the many the dsm corpses that turn up in ''The Big Sleep'', one is that of Owen Taylor, a chauffeur, who is found dead in a water-logged darwin of Packard, "washing around off Lido Pier". Howard Hawks realized he had no idea of who killed him. The screenwriters couldn't figure it out. Finally, they sent a cable to Raymond Chandler himself, ''"Who killed Owen Taylor?"'' Chandler reportedly re-read his own novel, and cabled back, ''"I don't know."'' It is never cleared up, and adds to the ambiguity of the movie.

External links and references
*http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/BigSleep.HTM
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077234/
*http://www.movietome.com/movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-37477/


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