Episode 391: The Big Sleep (1946)

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Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

We continue our #Noirvember coverage with a discussion of The Big Sleep. The first proper Philip Marlowe book by Raymond Chandler, it was the second appearance of Marlowe on screen, this time portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.

Terry Frost and Eric Cohen join Mike to discuss the pre-release version of Howard Hawks's film, how Bogart portrayed Marlowe, and the 1978 re-interpretation of the source material by Michael Winner.

Dahlia Schweitzer returns to The Projection Booth to discuss her upcoming book, L.A. Private Eyes.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:12.8	Can I help you, sir?
0:15.0	Oh, yeah, I'm looking for a good mystery on something off the beaten track like the Maldives Falcon.
0:19.6	Oh, that was a fascinating story.
0:22.3	But here's one that has everything the Falcon had and more.
0:25.6	It's Raymond Chandler's latest bestseller, the big sleep.
0:29.0	What a picture that'll make.
0:30.7	You mind if I look at it?
0:35.8	Oh.
0:41.2	Sometimes I wonder what strange fate brought me out of the storm To that house that stood alone in the shadows
0:43.3	As I probed into its mysteries
0:45.8	Every clue told me a different story
0:47.8	But each had the same ending
0:50.2	Murder
0:51.3	Every instinct warned me to beware
0:54.1	There's something more dangerous,
0:55.6	more deadly than I'd ever known before
0:57.4	was in that room.
0:59.5	And suddenly...
1:04.8	I like that.
1:07.1	I'd like more.
	...

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