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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Title:	The Big Sleep [IMDb]				Film Structure Tag Cloud
Release date:	August 23, 1946
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Runtime:	114 minutes
IMDB genres:	crime, film-noir, mystery, thriller
BYU holdings:	https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6769649

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Cast and Crew Actor Role Humphrey Bogart Philip Marlowe Lauren Bacall Vivian Rutledge John Ridgely Eddie Mars Martha Vickers Carmen Sternwood Dorothy Malone Acme Book Shop Proprietress Peggy Knudsen Mona Mars Regis Toomey Chief Inspector Bernie Ohls Charles Waldron General Sternwood Charles D. Brown Norris Bob Steele Lash Canino Elisha Cook Jr. Harry Jones Louis Jean Heydt Joe Brody Howard Hawks: director Max Steiner: composer Simon Bucharoff: orchestrator Leo F. Forbstein: musical director Film Statistics Stats Film duration: 1:53:45 Music duration: 00:55:33 Pages in score: 168 Total themes: 43 Themes with variants: 11 Total variants: 62 Total gestures: 20 Total underscoring sections: 28 Total underscoring duration: 00:06:16 Total instances: 202

Themes Name Uses Variants Marlowe 59 36 Carmen 15 7 Walking 12 4 Hurrying 8 1 Vivian 8 1 Driving 2 7 0 Marlowe 2 7 3 Jones 5 4 Sternwood 5 3 Car 2 0 Questions 2 0 Action 1 0 Canino's Death 1 0 Chevalier Audubon 1 0 Driving 1 0 Entering 1 0 Flirtation 1 0 Girl Driver 1 0 Mars Dies 1 0 Recovering 1 0 Signature 1 0 Station Wagon 1 0 The Big Sleep 1 0 The Library 1 0 The Pursuit 1 0 Transition 1 0 Waiting 1 0 Walking 2 1 0 Wrong Address 1 0 You! 1 0 Other films borrowed from: Crime School (1938) King Kong (1933) Lucky Devils (1933) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) In This Our Life (1942)

Combinations Name Uses Driving 2 + Vivian 3 Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe 1 Driving 2 + Carmen 1 Hostage + Marlowe 1 Vivian + Marlowe 1 Source Music Name Uses And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine 1 Down the Stairs 1 Hostage 1 I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan 1 I'm in a Jam With Baby 1 Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) 1 The Blue Room 1 The Chase 1 What Are You Doin' the Rest of Your Life 1 Wotta Life 1 You Go to My Head 1

Gestures Name Bites hand Carmen falls Coin in phone Door slam Drops hat Glass drops Hangs up phone He skids Jones falls Marlowe rises Phone dialing Running Running and jumping Running down Running out Slapping Turning page Turns light off Turns light on Water running Underscoring Name Dramatic Mysterious Tense