| UPC: |
Disc: 2ABC-8342-2F4F-361A (DVD) |
| Region Coding: |
Region 1 |
| Production Year: |
1946 |
| Rating: |
NR |
| Running Time: |
116 min. |
| DVD Release: |
10/5/2010 |
| Case Type: |
THINpak |
| Video Formats: |
Full Frame 1.33:1 |
| Disc Formats: |
Single Sided, Single Layered |
| SRP: |
$0.00 |
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L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. But Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style - and style is what The Big Sleep is all about. Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore. This DVD doubles your pleasure with two versions of this whodunit supreme: the familiar 1946 Theatrical Version (Side A) full of reshot scenes of incendiary Bogart/Bacall chemistry, and the less-familiar 1945 Prerelease Version (Side B), which recently resurfaced and whose plot and resolution are more linear. |
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| Genres |
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
Film Noir
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| Studios |
Warner Bros. Pictures
First National
Media Companies: Warner Home Video, Turner Entertainment |
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| Features |
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned |
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| Audio Tracks |
English Dolby Digital Mono
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| Cast |
Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe
Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge
John Ridgely as Eddie Mars
Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood
Dorothy Malone as Bookstore Proprietress
Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars
Regis Toomey as Bernie Ohls
Charles Waldron as General Sternwood
Charles D. Brown as Norris, the butler
Bob Steele as Canino
Elisha Cook, Jr. as Harry Jones
Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody |
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| Crew |
Direction:
Howard Hawks: Director
Writing:
William Faulkner: Screenwriter
Leigh Brackett: Screenwriter
Jules Furthman: Screenwriter
Raymond Chandler: Original Material By
Production:
Jack L. Warner: Executive Producer
Howard Hawks: Producer
Cinematography:
Sid Hickox: Director of Photography
Film Editing:
Christian Nyby: Film Editor
Music:
Max Steiner: Composer
Sound:
Robert B. Lee: Sound
Art:
E. Roy Davidson: Visual Effects
Warren E. Lynch: Visual Effects
Carl Jules Weyl: Art Director
Leah Rhodes: Costume Designer
Perc Westmore: Make-up Artist
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