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After seeing and loving Farewell my Lovely, I went to see this in theaters back in the 70's and thought it was terrible. I had seen the better reviewed Bogart Bacall version and never cared for it beyond the lead performance. Well, I decided to read the novel, and that totally turned me around and also on to Raymond Chandler's writing. For all its problems, this movie captures the story of the book terrifically. The plot is complicated but does pay off, and Mitchum, while really too old for the part, does well with it regardless. So don't dismiss it out of hand, especially if you are a fan of the Philip Marlowe books. On a side note, the recently discovered original cut of The Big Sleep with Bogey was a big improvement over the Bogey/Bacall lovefest that was available for so long, and is recommended as a double sided disc, on amazon. One side is the original cut and the other side has all the extra lovey dovey crap added, so you can see both and judge for yourself.
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Unbelievably awful. Crammed with big names of the day who sleep their way through a failed GCSE English script. Terrible, terrible, terrible. To believe an audience could be entertained by such a banal film is to have a conceit that cannot be pricked. Poor old Mitchum, doing his stuff, but on the way out - despite the script telling us how handsome he is. Arch Sarah Miles being what Winner thought was 'sexy', makes you go funny with embarrassment... bet she never views this codswallop. Fox being, er, 'zany', dear old Mills doing his stuff for the loot.
Much more enjoyable to put your head in a bucket of vomit.
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The Big Sleep has to be the most bizarre pitch of the 70s: giving Michael Winner carte blanche to transfer Philip Marlowe from LA's mean streets to the Green Streets of suburban England. With so many of the stellar supporting cast just so terribly wrong for their parts - a drunken Richard Boone with his leg in a cast as an unintentionally comical Lash Canino, Sarah Miles with the worst wardrobe and the biggest Afro you've ever seen on a white woman displaying all the sex appeal of a decomposing antelope in the Lauren Bacall role, Edward Fox as a bookie, John The Thief of Bagdad Justin as a glass-eyed gay blackmailer and Richard Todd as the police commissioner - it's only Robert Mitchum who keeps the thing afloat, even managing to keep a straight face when confronted with such dangerous characters as Dudley Sutton and Derek Deadman. On one level it is perversely watchable without ever being gleefully bad, but like almost all of Winner's films it shows his amazing ability to flatten any material he gets his hands on. Still, at least Mitchum amused himself on the set telling any passing Arabs he saw that Michael Winner was forcing the cast to give 25% of their salary to Mossad and then giving them the director's home address - "You can't miss it, it's the one with the effigy of Yasser Arafat hanging from the chimney."
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I thought this was a very good movie and a credible remake of the original. I've watched this on numerous occasions as I have the original.
Maybe I've led a sheltered life and I'm certainly not a Siskel or Ebert. I don't share the negative reviews on this movie.
Buy it, and make up your own mind.
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I feel in love with "The Big Sleep" when I first saw this film during the late 70s (it was on Showtime feature presentation). The way the plot moves with the narration is spellbinding. While I can see some possible weaknesses that others might find in the film--Robert Mitchum did an excellent job with portraying Phillip Marlowe. His voice and physic was a commanding presence in this film. I recommend it as a wonderful raining Saturday film.
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