The Big Sleep
Meet Philip Marlowe. The toughest private eye who ever wore a trench coat, slapped a dame and split his knuckles on a jawbone.
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3/13/1978Runtime
100 minsOverview
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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A 1970s spin on the classic hardboiled detective formula, following Marlowe through a labyrinth of blackmail, vice, and dark secrets. The film moves briskly through moral murk with a knowing detachment about its own noir conventions.
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Robert Mitchum
Philip Marlowe
Sarah Miles
Charlotte Sternwood
Richard Boone
Lash Cansino
Candy Clark
Camilla Sternwood
Joan Collins
Agnes Lazelle
Edward Fox
Joe Brody
John Mills
Inspector Carson
James Stewart
General Sternwood
Oliver Reed
Eddie Mars
Harry Andrews
Norris
Colin Blakely
Harry Jones
Richard Todd
Commander Barker
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