Friday Classic Film Series at the Montauk Library

THE BIG SLEEP

1946 Approved 1h 54m       Directed by Howard Hawks
Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart

Private detective Phillip Marlowe is hired by an elderly millionaire to deal with a bookseller who is blackmailing his younger daughter. His older daughter had been married to a bootlegger who has disappeared. A complicated but clever film noir, The Big Sleep is one of the four films in which Bogart and Bacall appeared on screen together.