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  • Detective Phillip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) waits at the bookshop across the street until he follows Geiger and his right arm, Carol Lundgren, to Geigers house when a murder takes place.
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    Original Release: August 30, 1946
    About The Big Sleep:
    Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall ignite the screen in this classic film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler's steamy detective novel. When private investigator Philip Marlowe (Bogart) accepts the blackmail case of one of Los Angeles' wealthiest men, his probe leads deep into a web of lies, drugs, pornography and murder woven around his client's two beautiful daughters. But Marlowe's most startling discovery is his inexorable attraction to one of the sisters.
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  • @sparkomatic
    @sparkomatic 2 місяці тому +15

    This scene is the best argument for small, independent bookstores.

  • @BlueBeeMCMLXI
    @BlueBeeMCMLXI 3 місяці тому +48

    That hat brim move and the dark glasses ... worth it. But the rye in the pocket - clean Ace. And when he leaves, says "so long, pal". Beautiful.

    • @albertgrant1017
      @albertgrant1017 3 місяці тому +6

      Absolutely.One of my favorite scenes in the movie,Wish he returned to the Acme Bookstore.Also wish he hooked up with the female cabdriver,!

    • @stevenrobert8567
      @stevenrobert8567 2 місяці тому +2

      Careful, I don't slap so good this time of evening. Great line. (--:

    • @alansorensen5903
      @alansorensen5903 2 місяці тому

      I liked when he told the librarian shortly before this, "I keep blondes in a bottle, too."

    • @stevenrobert8567
      @stevenrobert8567 2 місяці тому

      @@alansorensen5903 I stash redheads in my closet and blondes under the bed.

  • @lorenzobeckmann3736
    @lorenzobeckmann3736 3 місяці тому +26

    the greatness of this movie is manyfold; great original story, script doesn't insult your intelligence, superb acting, one must think to the plot, more............

    • @hectorrodriguez2686
      @hectorrodriguez2686 3 місяці тому +2

      It is not an original story. It is based on a novel.

    • @thesoultwins72
      @thesoultwins72 3 місяці тому +3

      @@hectorrodriguez2686 .......The genius of Raymond Chandler

  • @azohundred1353
    @azohundred1353 3 місяці тому +35

    The Big Sleep is a perfect combo of Film Noir and Screwball Comedy, from the master director Howard Hawks. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are at their best in this. Shoutout to Dorothy Malone, Martha Vickers, and Sonia Darrin as well(3 more actresses shown in this clip).

  • @davidhull1481
    @davidhull1481 3 місяці тому +52

    Never gets old- except for the “men don’t make passes” routine.
    Dorothy Malone makes one hell of an impression!

    • @edelmiraespinosa9689
      @edelmiraespinosa9689 2 місяці тому +2

      Bogie and Bacall great movies

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 2 місяці тому +5

      I think Bogie and Dorothy are more interesting than Bogie and Bacall. Also, Dorothy doesn't take off her glasses reflexively, just because a man interests her. He's the one who asks, she isn't self-conscious about them. I like this brunette, smart, confident Dorothy better than the blonde alcoholic mess that won her an Oscar for "Written on the Wind."

    • @davidhull1481
      @davidhull1481 2 місяці тому +1

      @@lemorab1 I was referring to the Dorothy Parker quote. Or one of those Algonquin Round Table sages.

    • @stevenrobert8567
      @stevenrobert8567 2 місяці тому +2

      I haven't watched this great movie since I was teen. It's great, I love the time period and in black and white. And the old cars in the movie. And the music, and the cinematography. A 100 years from now, people will still love this movie.

  • @johnkeenan1829
    @johnkeenan1829 3 місяці тому +18

    I'm currently rereading my Chandler. Gods, what a brilliant writer.

    • @garryferrington811
      @garryferrington811 2 місяці тому +1

      Interestingly, he had the same literary teacher as P.G. Wodehouse, who was a rather successful writer himself.

    • @leoscheibelhut940
      @leoscheibelhut940 7 днів тому

      @johnkeenan1829 Whenever I read Chandler he is my favorite author, until I reread Hammett.

  • @jlwilliams
    @jlwilliams 3 місяці тому +21

    People often don't realize how much dry humor is baked into Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books, and it looks as if this film captures it well. I'll have to seek out the full version.

    • @eFMe-fk1xh
      @eFMe-fk1xh 3 місяці тому +2

      Being an Howard Hawks movie it's always "characters and entertainment over anything else". Much like Chandler, the mood is all that matters. The Big Sleep is the noir's noir.

  • @gonesnake2337
    @gonesnake2337 2 місяці тому +12

    I got a little thrill playing the video game L.A. Noire. I found Geiger's Bookstore and, sure enough, if you look across the street, there's Acme Books.

    • @mosinmeister25
      @mosinmeister25 2 місяці тому +5

      Great Game! I didn't notice that. I'll have to look.

    • @gonesnake2337
      @gonesnake2337 2 місяці тому +1

      @@mosinmeister25 I did a guided play through of the story (looked up online hints, walkthroughs) just to have the free roaming of 40s Los Angeles.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 6 днів тому

      That's awesome.

  • @McRocket
    @McRocket 3 місяці тому +18

    Wow.
    That woman in the second bookstore really stole the scene.
    Looks and acting.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 2 місяці тому +4

      I thought she looked fine with the glasses, even better.

    • @206or16
      @206or16 Місяць тому +2

      That’s Dorothy Malone…who later appeared in the TV series “Payton Place”.

    • @aileenwagner2576
      @aileenwagner2576 10 днів тому

      ​@nedludd7622 LOL, I was thinking the same exact thing!!! She certainly held her own with Bogie too!

  • @zetectic7968
    @zetectic7968 2 місяці тому +6

    A classic! The cars, the clothes, the dames: they don't make 'em like that any more.

  • @BB1951
    @BB1951 2 місяці тому +6

    These Warner Bros pictures always have a unique look and sound. Unmistakable.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 6 днів тому

      Even their cartoons have a sound. The sense of space around the characters. Amazingly I found out at a party at Isabelle Allende's place. A guest was a composer who had been in the sound stage. It was exactly that. Their unique sound stage acoustics. Listen to Fog Horn Leg Horn and you can hear the room.

  • @robkunkel8833
    @robkunkel8833 Місяць тому +1

    The black and white photography puts just enough light on the subjects in the rain during the car scene at the middle of this clip.

  • @texasbluebonnet4303
    @texasbluebonnet4303 3 місяці тому +12

    Wow, look at those cars!

  • @petergraham8681
    @petergraham8681 2 місяці тому +4

    These two book store scenes especially the second one with Dorothy Malone, the latter teasing the production code at the time, are among my favorite moments in the film & Bogart has a fine time playing both of them it seems.

  • @mysterirhys
    @mysterirhys 3 місяці тому +11

    Totally fell in love with Dorothy Malone from this scene

    • @Bogie0315
      @Bogie0315 2 місяці тому +2

      I also, I thought she was the best looking women in the movie, wish she had a bigger role in the film.

    • @206or16
      @206or16 Місяць тому

      @@Bogie0315: Dorothy Malone is very attractive, but I feel Martha Vickers is a notch higher in the looks category.

  • @TrailerBob
    @TrailerBob 3 місяці тому +12

    The hell with Peyton Place, this is Dorothy Malone's finest hour. She gets Canuck-cred for being in an episode of "The Littlest Hobo" too.

  • @rrsteamer
    @rrsteamer 3 місяці тому +24

    As an opinion, Dorothy Malone’s performance in this book store scene to me is quite exceptional. Was she capable of that depth of feelings (a great actress) or was she actually making a bit of a play for Bogart? Believe Bogart was in the beginning stages of his relationship with Bacall. Not that Malone wanted to move in, but perhaps just trying the “waters” as it were. Regardless, one of my favorite scenes.

    • @thesoultwins72
      @thesoultwins72 3 місяці тому +6

      @rrsteamer........By all accounts, 19-year-old Malone was so nervous appearing opposite Bogart in this scene, her hands couldn't stop shaking and she kept spilling her drink. Hawks eventually solved the problem by putting lead weights in her cup.

    • @rrsteamer
      @rrsteamer 3 місяці тому +3

      @@thesoultwins72 Well, certainly hadn’t heard that story. Even so, she did a nice job and signs of nervousness were not evident. It would appear that the little bit of help from the director was enough to complete the scene nicely. Thanks for the info!

    • @thesoultwins72
      @thesoultwins72 3 місяці тому +6

      @@rrsteamer ........You're welcome. Although not my favourite film adaptation of Chandler's genius writing - it is still an exceptionally good film. And as you say, despite only a very brief cameo, Dorothy Malone performed her part really well.

    • @abbashussein6161
      @abbashussein6161 2 місяці тому

      WAS LAUREN MAIN STAR OR MALONE

    • @royfr8136
      @royfr8136 13 днів тому

      She was only 19?

  • @josenighthawk
    @josenighthawk 3 місяці тому +10

    Noirs are true INTIMITE Conversations, and it is best to hold them at night - preferably during rainy nights! ... Oh, they are also best - mighty best! - in Black & White, so to allow us to color their shades and tones with the 'Colors' of our feelings!

  • @jackie7725
    @jackie7725 3 місяці тому +6

    I used to watch these movies as a kid

  • @daveb7811
    @daveb7811 2 місяці тому +5

    Is that a bottle of rye in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

  • @robb7398
    @robb7398 2 місяці тому +3

    Geiger's "shadow," Lundgren, was his live-in boy toy in the book.

  • @ronnsutton4902
    @ronnsutton4902 3 місяці тому +7

    The characters name is Agnes and she is the coolest character in this great classic

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 2 місяці тому +2

    Don’t try to figure out the plot of this film based on this entire clip. You never will. It’s incomprehensible - but very enjoyable and worth watching regardless.

  • @leoscheibelhut940
    @leoscheibelhut940 2 місяці тому +1

    This is one of my favorite scenes in cinema! Bogart is great but she's perfection!

  • @psgrenier
    @psgrenier 14 днів тому +1

    Incredible. Two bookstores. Both still economically viable and within easy walking distance. Seems like a utopia today.

  • @PaulWilliams66
    @PaulWilliams66 3 місяці тому +4

    The ‘studio’ rain always puts my in mind of Bladerunner.

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 3 місяці тому +13

    Great movie. Was the librarian suggesting an after noon delight 😂

    • @Actor412
      @Actor412 2 місяці тому +3

      Sky rockets in flight.

    • @garryferrington811
      @garryferrington811 2 місяці тому +3

      Yup. Very subtle, because of censorship.

  • @louise_rose
    @louise_rose 3 місяці тому +16

    Marlowe's questions about those rare books, with very specific misprints ("third edition with a duplicated line on p.116") sound like an in-joke between book collectors. Books aren't like rare stamps in that way; a special misprint or typo on a page doesn't make them into special collectibles. :) Wonderful film, a real classic.

    • @Rozsaphile
      @Rozsaphile 2 місяці тому +1

      Not to mention that "Ben-Hur" wasn't published until 1880.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 2 місяці тому

      @@Rozsaphile Incidentally, there was a scam Ponzi scheme in France some years ago where a man, assisted by two antiquarian book sellers, talked up the value of some supposedly rare manuscripts by the Marquise de Sade (a wayward classic with some parts of the French literate public) and goaded people into paying serious money to own shares in these manuscripts, then urging them to find a new tier of customers so they could get paid by them for owning further small parts of those notebooks or whatever...This is a real "only in France" thing. 😀

    • @robkunkel8833
      @robkunkel8833 Місяць тому

      👨🏽‍🏫🎉Thanks for the first thought. Yes, a rare book is not like a rare stamp. I just got schooled. A book collector’s inside joke. Yes.

    • @mariellegrass-singing4718
      @mariellegrass-singing4718 27 днів тому

      Yes . Priceless

  • @thoughtsurferzone5012
    @thoughtsurferzone5012 2 місяці тому +5

    Pretty, bookish girl. Hope he got more than a book marker. 😘😘😘😘

  • @lindafarnes486
    @lindafarnes486 2 місяці тому +1

    It's a really good book by Raymond Chandler. Probably his best.

  • @josenighthawk
    @josenighthawk 3 місяці тому +5

    NOTE: Back then there were legal issues of using a name that could already be copyrighted elsewhere - and thus, being exposed to potential lawsuits. ... Keep in mind that back then there were no powerful computers (just clunky analog mechanical ones) to both store and search for hypothetically considered names - let alone, no internet, Google, etc., of course. ... Not sure about the name of the bookstore across the street. .. It could be one of many that Hollywood pre-copyrighted to use in films. ... BTW, Digital Computing, as universally used all over, was invented by 30's & 40's & 50's actress, Hedy Lamarr, who was not only stunningly beautiful but a true MENSA genius. ... She came up with the framework of digital computing while inventing and devising 'STEALTH TRANSMISSION' of electronic signals that made torpedoes stealthy in their signatures against detection. .. (She, of course, got a patent for this.)

  • @Bogie0315
    @Bogie0315 2 місяці тому +3

    l loved Dorothy Malone's part in the film, I liked her better as a brunette as she went blond in many of her later films.

  • @brianwallace6566
    @brianwallace6566 2 місяці тому +2

    that final line? so hilarious. (I mean, the whole thing is great but)

  • @RaysDad
    @RaysDad 2 місяці тому +3

    Movies like this are no longer allowed.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 6 днів тому

      Well you have to get frisked first.

  • @brendakempf186
    @brendakempf186 2 місяці тому +1

    My absolute favorite Bogie movie.

  • @theroaringshadows
    @theroaringshadows Місяць тому +2

    Watching a lot of Black n white movies lately reminds me how simple & normal people once were. Everyone has been lead to believe technology helps us so much meanwhile everyone's attention span is now 1.5 seconds.

  • @johnnya867
    @johnnya867 3 місяці тому +3

    Hmm I wonder what they're suggesting went on in that bookstore that we werent privy to during this little episode. They should have shown him doing up his tie. Never would have got past the sensors! I've have seen this film 20 times, conservative estimate. Just ask my wife!😊

  • @greglongphee2034
    @greglongphee2034 2 місяці тому +2

    Dorothy was some babe in her youth.

  • @voltairebanquirigo1119
    @voltairebanquirigo1119 3 місяці тому +2

    Hope we can have the whole film. Saw the robert mitchum version but nothing bet the bogie original

  • @vincentmoserblues
    @vincentmoserblues Місяць тому +1

    Dorothy Malone ! Even more more seductive with glasses. For me she was the real star of "The Big Sleep".

  • @snarflatful
    @snarflatful 2 місяці тому +2

    Great film.

  • @buzzawuzza3743
    @buzzawuzza3743 2 місяці тому +1

    Yikes! He left fingerprints on everything in Geiger's house!

  • @rinkadink66
    @rinkadink66 2 місяці тому +1

    Hollywood at its best..

  • @waynedurning8717
    @waynedurning8717 2 місяці тому +3

    These women are gorgeous lol.

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 6 днів тому

    Imagine the world working like this.

  • @darnellmitchell9357
    @darnellmitchell9357 3 місяці тому +1

    😂😂😂 I love it this is my first time seeing this but I love to dialect when he slapped in the face and said lady on there and be quiet oh my God later and be quiet

    • @pasqualevincent9260
      @pasqualevincent9260 3 місяці тому

      Wish this was in English

    • @lbj4993
      @lbj4993 3 місяці тому

      Please take some writing lessons...please, please, please...

  • @AlanCanasToons
    @AlanCanasToons 3 місяці тому +8

    ACME?!?!?

    • @josenighthawk
      @josenighthawk 3 місяці тому +1

      NOTE: Back then there were legal issues of using a name that could already be copyrighted elsewhere - and thus, being exposed to potential lawsuits. ... Keep in mind that back then there were no powerful computers (just clunky analog mechanical ones) to both store and search for hypothetically considered names - let alone, no internet, Google, etc., of course. ... Not sure about the name of the bookstore across the street. .. It could be one of many that Hollywood pre-copyrighted to use in films. ... BTW, Digital Computing, as universally used all over, was invented by 30's & 40's & 50's actress, Hedy Lamarr, who was not only stunningly beautiful but a true MENSA genius. ... She came up with the framework of digital computing while inventing and devising 'STEALTH TRANSMISSION' of electronic signals that made torpedoes stealthy in their signatures against detection. .. (She, of course, got a patent for this.)

    • @jlwilliams
      @jlwilliams 3 місяці тому

      "Acme" was a popular real-world name for businesses and products in 20th-century America -- it means "highest point, peak, summit" etc. Chuck Jones had tongue firmly in cheek when he adopted it as the name for the business that foisted invariably disastrous products on Wyle E. Coyote...

    • @robb7398
      @robb7398 2 місяці тому +1

      Acme was a common name for businesses back then. Like Apex.

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 2 місяці тому

      No products for Wile E. Coyote were sold at this bookstore, however.

  • @ianboard544
    @ianboard544 3 місяці тому +1

    I was surprised that Sonia Darrin wasn't in the credits.

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh 2 місяці тому

      There was some kind of falling-out with her and the studio and while they couldn’t remove her from the movie, they didn’t credit her or employ her again. Meanwhile she’s one of the best parts of this film.

  • @LarryMcLarnon
    @LarryMcLarnon Місяць тому

    Classy stuff.

  • @jimringomartin
    @jimringomartin 2 місяці тому +1

    Bogey, the G.O.A.T. The reason I became a P.I.

  • @jeshkam
    @jeshkam 3 місяці тому +4

    Who plays the Geiger bookstore assistant?

    • @azohundred1353
      @azohundred1353 3 місяці тому +4

      Sonia Darrin.

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 3 місяці тому +4

      @@azohundred1353 Thanks!

  • @larrytaylor3048
    @larrytaylor3048 2 місяці тому +1

    I have some rye in my pocket as well!

  • @lorianderson-musgrave3609
    @lorianderson-musgrave3609 3 місяці тому +2

    So long,Pal

  • @TerryUniGeezerPeterson
    @TerryUniGeezerPeterson Місяць тому

    We'll always have Geiger - we didn't have, we lost him until he turned up in the bed. We got him back last night.

  • @ItsMefromSnuffys
    @ItsMefromSnuffys Місяць тому

    Cutting the intro music and credits really detracts from the experience

  • @freddiecarr7602
    @freddiecarr7602 3 місяці тому +2

    Classic

  • @billwhelpley6825
    @billwhelpley6825 2 місяці тому +1

    Awful lot of good looking dames in those book stores!

  • @danlhendl
    @danlhendl 3 місяці тому

    She reminds me of mak. Just vaguely if you squint real hard

  • @scottdellrobinson
    @scottdellrobinson 3 місяці тому +1

    They didnt shower after drinks and things. lol

  • @billthestinker
    @billthestinker 3 місяці тому +1

    Bogart was party size

  • @TerryUniGeezerPeterson
    @TerryUniGeezerPeterson Місяць тому

    Martha Vickers was hot!

  • @AaronGranda-g5r
    @AaronGranda-g5r Місяць тому

    Sex drugs and murder. Yeah thats the forties all right.
    Malone is adorable. This is so good i can almost forgive the cheapass sets.

  • @lonzo61
    @lonzo61 2 місяці тому

    This kind of thing has never happened to me with the dames. Say, what gives? Maybe I need to start carrying a flask of rye, and develop a manner of speaking like Bogie. Shay shweetheart.

  • @RobertHunt-vd8vy
    @RobertHunt-vd8vy 2 місяці тому

    Robert Michum did a good in job......his should of longer. Robert

  • @royfr8136
    @royfr8136 13 днів тому

    'A dead body is heavier than a broken heart' - Man, I wanted to like Raymond Chandler but between the implausible plots and convenient behaviour = cheese

  • @gaylandbarney2231
    @gaylandbarney2231 2 місяці тому

    like hearing the main theme of one movement of a concerto , this sucks.......give us the movie ,

  • @CliffBronson1212
    @CliffBronson1212 2 місяці тому

    I will always be on the side of Moses ...I do not choose this ...choice made for me ...less Vincent, more Holy Trinity 😍

  • @Ftc.6
    @Ftc.6 2 місяці тому

    Reported for Homophobia

  • @DieFlabbergast
    @DieFlabbergast Місяць тому

    Good acting, of course, but this is a travesty for anyone who has read the book. Apart from completely changing the dialogue and the appearance of every character (including Marlowe himself), they also went off on a storyline that's not only not in the book, it's not in character for Philip Marlowe. I should have expected no less when I saw they had cast Bogart in the title role. In the books, Philip Marlowe was six foot three and broad-shouldered. Bogart was nowhere near that. It's like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

  • @arturovaldes546
    @arturovaldes546 3 місяці тому

    Only in the movies 19 year girls fall for middle age men.

    • @MsJackrussell2
      @MsJackrussell2 3 місяці тому +3

      They do in real life...if the man has plenty of money.

    • @svjim1
      @svjim1 2 місяці тому +2

      Miss Bacall Mrs. Bogart same age.

    • @jesterday2222
      @jesterday2222 2 місяці тому

      @@svjim1 He was 25 years her senior 🙄 Old perv

  • @johnsmith100
    @johnsmith100 2 місяці тому +1

    Who’s this actor?

    • @VentrueCapital
      @VentrueCapital 2 місяці тому +1

      Name’s Humphrey Bogart.

    • @johnsmith100
      @johnsmith100 2 місяці тому

      @@VentrueCapital
      Thanks. He’s famous, I know him, but my brain couldn’t fetch his name :)