{"id":17116,"date":"2025-02-02T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:44:02","slug":"the-big-sleep-1946-howard-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17116","title":{"rendered":"The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bogart Marlowe is hired by wealthy recluse with two daughters: wild Carmen and tough Lauren Bacall.  Bookseller Dorothy Malone helps him spot a gambler who&#8217;s thought to be involved, but the gambler turns up dead, and so does another guy, then Bacall brings up a new blackmail plot, then yet another guy gets killed, and finally Marlowe helps the cops wrap it up and all is finished.<\/p>\n<p>But it can&#8217;t be finished &#8211; there&#8217;s still a half hour left and I haven&#8217;t seen Elisha Cook Jr. yet.  Here he is, offering to sell info about another plot &#8211; all this time Bacall has been covering for evil landlord Eddie, whose thug Bob Steele poisons Elisha.  Bogart Marlowe liked Elisha (who wouldn&#8217;t?) and takes this one personally, goes to Eddie&#8217;s hideout and blasts those fuckers instead of informing his cop friends.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nerd Dorothy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/bigsleep1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Bacall and Eddie:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/bigsleep3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Elisha, in over his head:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/bigsleep2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogart Marlowe is hired by wealthy recluse with two daughters: wild Carmen and tough Lauren Bacall. Bookseller Dorothy Malone helps him spot a gambler who&#8217;s thought to be involved, but the gambler turns up dead, and so does another guy, then Bacall brings up a new blackmail plot, then yet another guy gets killed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,2224,2799,103,414,792,2108,2969],"class_list":["post-17116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-blackmail","tag-elisha-cook-jr","tag-howard-hawks","tag-humphrey-bogart","tag-lauren-bacall","tag-marlowe","tag-poison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17179,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions\/17179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}