Title: | The Big Sleep [IMDb] | ![]() |
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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 |
Plot keywords (from IMDb): assault, based on novel, bead curtain, beating, beret, betrayal, blackmail, book, book seller, bookstore, brandy, butler, california, car in water, chauffeur, corpse, cult film, dame, dead body, death by poison, detective, diner, drug addict, drugging, face slap, fake robbery, father daughter relationship, female taxi driver, femme fatale, flat tire, flirtation, forced suicide, gambling, gambling debt, gangster, gay subtext, general, greenhouse, gunfire, hard boiled, hidden camera, hidden character, hold up, hothouse, invalid, library, los angeles california, missing body, missing person, murder, national book award, night, nylon stockings, nymphomaniac, orchestral music score, orchid, orientalist, pay phone, photograph, pier, plot twist, poison, police, pornography, prank telephone call, private detective, private eye, private investigator, promissory note, protection, punched in the face, rain, rare book, rare book store, reference to charlie chan, reference to marcel proust, restaurant, roadhouse, rolling up one's sleeves, roulette, scratching oneself, scream, seduction, sexual attraction, sexy librarian, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, stakeout, stars married in real life, surprise ending, symphonic music score, tailing a suspect, taxi, telephone call, three word title, thunderstorm, tied up, title same as book, traffic, wheelchair, world war one veteran, philip marlowe