The Big Sleep

What’s wrong with you? Nothing you can’t fix. Back on cinema screens after 80 years, Academy Award nominee, writer-director Howard Hanks’ (Scarface, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) American crime noir THE BIG SLEEP. Private investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by General Sternwood to help resolve the gambling debts of his wild young daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers). Sternwood's older daughter, Vivian (Lauren Bacall), provides assistance when she implies that the situation is more complex, also involving casino owner (John Ridgely) and a recently disappeared family friend. As people linked to the Sternwoods start being murdered, Marlowe finds himself getting ever deeper into the case. With standout performances from lead cast, Academy Award winner Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca) and Academy Award winner Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not), THE BIG SLEEP is a witty and sinister mystery that pulls complex threads together in such a way that has you questioning who is good and who is evil.