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Watch: The Big Sleep 1946 123movies, Full Movie Online – P.I. Philip Marlowe’s hired by a wealthy general to find out and stop his daughter, Carmen from being blackmailed over gambling debts, Marlowe finds himself deep within a web of love triangles, blackmail, murder, gambling, and organised crime. With help from Vivian (another of the general’s daughters), Marlowe hatches a plot to free the family from this web and trap the real culprit..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.9/10 Votes: 86,305
	97% | RottenTomatoes
	86/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 820 Popularity: 15.551 | TMDB

Reviews:

This continues the incredible run of films Bogie made with now-wife Lauren Bacall. Crackling script ran to perfection by Howard Hawks. Essential, especially for fans of detective thrillers or simply well-made movies.

Oh, man, what a movie!

Perfect on every sense. Great cast, with terrific Bogart and Bacall. Complex and interesting plot and smart dialogues. Only “funny” thing, if we want to say something, is the “perception” of the women roles in the movie. They are strangely all sexy and attracted to and tempting Philip Marlow.

Lots of murders never looked and sounded to good
The Big Sleep (1946)

Even hardened film noir and Humphrey Bogart fans admit that this is one confusing movie. It makes sense, but it is edited down to such essentials, and it barrels along with the intensity of a bullet in a smoky canyon using overlapping dialog e and a shower of names, half of whom end up dead, it’s really an impossible job for a mortal viewer.

And that’s where it’s aura, and magic, and legend, lie. It’s a great film, and if it’s flawed by its excessive velocity, it’s defined by it, too. Enjoy Bogart as such, and Lauren Bacall for her sporadic appearances, and for Elisha Cook Jr. for a brief, wonderful splash. All the side characters, even the ones who are clearly only characters, are dripping with criminal drama. The photography is dark but never obscure, the action is fast but never unreasonable, and the lines are classic noir.

In fact, the dialog, if you are paying attention, is one of the gems of 1940s movies–really witty and cutting, and cunning. The movie is brilliant top to bottom, if only you could keep track of what was going on.

Suggestions: Read the plot in the Wikipedia entry before you watch the movie a second time. (The first time, just dive and and get lost. It’s too much fun to care, if you can let go.) Watch Bogart’s delivery, his physical presence, his wherewithal. Listen to Bacall sing (pretty darned good). Watch the amazing light and camera work (Sydney Hickox) with it’s constantly moving perspective and layers of action. Follow the score (Max Steiner) which is appropriately restrained, turning just slightly when Bogart and Bacall are in scenes together.

Howard Hawks pulls of a quirky masterpiece here. You get to the end and frankly don’t care too much, perhaps, about the outcome, about who survives and what their futures might hold. But that’s fine, too. It might just make you want to watch it again. Good filmmaking does that.

Actually this is the better of the two
This review written 2014 of a film that Bogey did 5 years after the success of the Maltese Falcon where he played Sam Spade.

Spade is one of the two greatest fictional detectives of all time. The other is Marlowe. That’s who Bogey plays here.

In 2014 Falcon has a higher IMDb score then Sleep. I am hoping that by the time this review is read in the 22nd century, that error will have been rectified.

Why is this the better film? Two words…

The first word is restraint. In this film Bogey gives one of the few measured performances of his life and that is an impressive sight. In Falcon his character was nuts and so was he. There was even a “Mutiny on the Bounty” end speech in it with wild eyes. All very gratuitous and over the top.

The second word is BABY.

In this film Bogey plays against Baby just before they hooked up in real life. You could feel it then, you can feel it now, and you will still be able to feel in the 22nd century.

This is the better film. See it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min), 1 hr 56 min (116 min) (pre-release)
Budget 1600000
Revenue 4900000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Director Howard Hawks
Writer William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Plus-X 1231)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm, 35 mm (Eastman 1302)