The Big Sleep (1946)
It’s a sordid world all this month for the theme we’re calling THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR. That means we’re watching classic film noir every weekday all March long and every Monday we’re zeroing in on a film adaptation of author Raymond Chandler’s iconic hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe. It’s the first of our MARLOWE MONDAYS and we’re hitting it off with what is probably the most iconic of the Philip Marlowe adaptations, the 1946 film “THE BIG SLEEP” directed by Howard Hawks and starring one of the all-timer Hollywood couples, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Explaining the plot to this…
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