Afterward, Marlowe discovers that Jones lied about Agnes's location. Canino then forces Jones to have a "drink" which turns out to be poison. As Marlowe watches from hiding, Canino threatens Jones until Jones tells him Agnes's address. When Marlowe goes to meet him and be taken to her hiding place, he spots Canino, a gunman hired by Mars, who is there to find Agnes. Jones conveys her offer to reveal Mars' wife's location for $200. He is found by Harry Jones: an associate of Agnes who is besotted with her. Mars has Marlowe beaten up to stop him investigating further. The next day, Vivian tells him he can stop looking for Regan he has been found in Mexico and she is going to see him. When she attempts to seduce Marlowe, he throws her out. She says she did not like Regan and mentions that Mars calls Vivian frequently. Back at home, Marlowe finds a flirtatious Carmen waiting for him. While driving back, Marlowe presses Vivian on her connection with Mars but she admits nothing. A stooge of Mars' attempts to rob Vivian but Marlowe knocks him out.
Vivian wins a big wager and then wants Marlowe to take her home. Mars is evasive and tells Marlowe that Vivian is running up gambling debts. Marlowe visits Mars' casino where he asks about Regan, who supposedly ran off with Mars' wife. Marlowe calls the police to arrest Lundgren. Marlowe chases the killer and apprehends Carol Lundgren, Geiger's former driver, who believes Brody is swindling him. Brody admits he was behind the blackmailing, having stolen the negatives from Taylor, but denies having murdered him. Marlowe disarms her and sends Vivian and Carmen home. They are interrupted by Carmen, who wants her photos. Marlowe goes to Brody's apartment, where he finds Agnes and Vivian. They are interrupted by the landlord, gangster Eddie Mars. He then finds Carmen outside Geiger's house, where she insists that it was Brody who killed Geiger. Marlowe returns to Geiger's bookstore and follows a car to the apartment of Joe Brody, a gambler who previously blackmailed General Sternwood. Vivian comes to Marlowe's office the next morning with scandalous pictures of Carmen that she received with a blackmail demand for the negatives. During the night Marlowe learns that Sternwood's driver, Owen Taylor, has been found dead in a limo driven off the Lido Pier, having been struck on the back of the head. After taking Carmen home he returns and discovers that the body has disappeared. Hearing a gunshot and a woman's scream, he breaks in to find Geiger's body and a drugged Carmen, as well as a hidden camera minus its film. Marlowe goes to Geiger's shop, which is minded by Agnes Louzier, and then follows Geiger home. She suspects her father's true motive for hiring a detective is to find his protégé Sean Regan, who disappeared a month earlier. As Marlowe leaves, Sternwood's older daughter Vivian stops him.
DONT SLEEP MOVIE WIKI SERIES
Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood, who wants to resolve a series of personal debts his daughter Carmen owes to bookseller Arthur Geiger.
Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and added it to the National Film Registry. In 1997, the original 1945 cut was restored and released. The film was a critical and commercial success, and led to two more "Bogie and Bacall" films by Warner Bros.: Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). The Big Sleep was finally released by Warner Bros.
When that movie failed, reshoots were done in early 1946 meant to take advantage of the public's fascination with "Bogie and Bacall". During its delay, Bogart and Bacall married and Bacall was cast in Confidential Agent. A cut was released to servicemen overseas in 1945 shortly after its completion. Initially produced in late 1944, the film's release was delayed by over a year due to the studio wanting to release war films in anticipation of the end of World War II. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story that begins with blackmail and leads to multiple murders. William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay, which adapts Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel. The Big Sleep is a 1946 American film noir directed by Howard Hawks.
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