{"id":16734,"date":"2016-11-12T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16734"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:00:55","slug":"the-big-sleep-1946-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16734","title":{"rendered":"The Big Sleep (1946) directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart &amp; Lauren Bacall \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z111216zview_thebigsleep_poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z111216zview_thebigsleep_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><strong>The Big Sleep (1946)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong><span class=\"itemprop\">Howard Hawks<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>William Faulkner &amp; Leigh Brackett &amp; Jules Furthman<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0based on the novel by <b>Raymond Chandler<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Bob Steele<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"itemprop\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and <b>Elisha Cook, Jr<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tagline: <em>The Violence-Screen&#8217;s All-Time Rocker-Shocker!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Private Eye, Phillip Marlowe [Bogart] is hired by a rich old man to stop his daughter Carmen from being blackmailed for gambling debts. \u00a0The deeper Marlowe digs into the case the more seedy it becomes. \u00a0Soon enough Marlowe is trying to sort out how Carmen is involved not only in gambling, but also pornography, murder and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bogart was married, but his affair with co-star Lauren Bacall was on-going during filming.\u00a0 They were married three months after filming completed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the novel, the scene between Marlowe and the bookstore clerk was much tamer.\u00a0 Although only 19 years old,\u00a0Dorothy Malone&#8217;s &#8220;mature sexuality&#8221; caused Howard Hawks to film the scene implying Marlowe and the clerk were going to have sex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Big Sleep<\/em> is a classic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z111216zview_thebigsleep_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Sleep (1946) Director: Howard Hawks Screenplay: William Faulkner &amp; Leigh Brackett &amp; Jules Furthman\u00a0\u00a0based on the novel by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40993,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions\/40993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}