7.5K views · 476 reactions | The Big Sleep (1946) — Private detective Philip Marlowe dives into a web of crime, lies, and desire. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s chemistry sizzles through every shadowy scene. #TheBigSleep #HumphreyBogart #LaurenBacall #FilmNoir #ClassicMovies #OldHollywood #GoldenAgeOfCinema #VintageStyle #HollywoodLegends #NoirVibes #RetroRomance #BogartAndBacall #ClassicFilm #CinematicIcons | Cinema Blend | Facebook

Remembering Bogart and Bacall in... The Big Sleep The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks,the first film version of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results". William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film