The Big Sleep (1978 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Winner |
| Produced by | Jerry Bick Lew Grade Elliott Kastner Bernard Williams Michael Winner |
| Screenplay by | Michael Winner |
| Based on |
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler |
| Starring |
Robert Mitchum Sarah Miles Richard Boone Candy Clark Joan Collins Edward Fox James Stewart |
| Narrated by | Robert Mitchum |
| Music by | Jerry Fielding |
| Cinematography | Robert Paynter |
| Edited by | Frederick Wilson |
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United Artists (1978, original) Artisan (under license from Carlton Media) (2002, DVD) Shout Factory (under license from ITV Studios) (2014, DVD) |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Big Sleep is a 1978 film, the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The picture was directed by Michael Winner and stars Robert Mitchum in his second feature film portrayal of the detective Philip Marlowe. The cast includes Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, and Oliver Reed, also featuring James Stewart as General Sternwood.
The story's setting was changed from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London. The film contained material more explicit than what could only be hinted at in the 1946 version, such as homosexuality, pornography and nudity. Mitchum was 60 at the time of filming, far older than Chandler's 33-year-old Marlowe (or the 1946 film's 38-year-old Marlowe played by a 46-year-old Bogart).
In 1970s England, private detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) is asked to the stately home of General Sternwood (James Stewart), who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him. While at the mansion, he meets the General's spoiled and inquisitive daughter Charlotte (Sarah Miles) and wild younger daughter Camilla (Candy Clark).
Marlowe's investigation of the homosexual pornographer Arthur Geiger (John Justin) leads him to Geiger's employee, Agnes Lozelle (Joan Collins), and to a man she has taken up with, Joe Brody (Edward Fox). He also discovers Camilla at the scene of Geiger's murder, where she has posed for nude photographs, and takes her home safely to a grateful Charlotte.
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