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The Big Sleep (1946)

★ 7.6 · 1,150 ratings on TMDB

The picture they were born for!

The Big Sleep poster★ 7.6

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.

DirectorHoward Hawks
CastBob Steele, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr., Humphrey Bogart, John Ridgely, Lauren Bacall
GenresCrime, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Big Sleep keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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