The Big Sleep (1946) Crime / Drama / Film Noir / Mystery
114 minutes Directed by Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge John Ridgely as Eddie Mars Martha Vickers as Carmen Sternwood Dorothy Malone as Acme Book Shop Proprietress Peggy Knudsen as Mona Mars Regis Toomey as Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls Charles Waldron as General Sternwood Charles D. Brown as Norris the Butler Bob Steele as Lash Canino Elisha Cook Jr. as Harry Jones Louis Jean Heydt as Joe Brody Philip Marlowe is requested by the dying General Sternwood, to handle many problems that are stressing his family. Marlowe realizes that every situation revolves around Sternwood's favorite employee who vanished and left with a gangster's wife. Each situation seems to conceal something else and Marlowe wants to get to the bottom of it. The Big Sleep trailer
