The Big Sleep (1946 film) The Big Sleep (1946 film) The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. 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 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and added it to the National Film Registry. Because the film was scheduled for release a
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein Shelley as shown by several letters. "The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein" includes a favorable review of "Shelley's Fiction" (1998) by Phyllis Zimmerman, a book in which Zimmerman argues for Percy Bysshe Shelley's authorship of "Frankenstein", and a short bibliography of books and articles about Percy Bysshe Shelley and "Frankenstein". Lauritsen praises poet Edmund Blunden's "" (1946), calling it the best short biography about Percy Bysshe Shelley. "The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein" was first published in 2007 by Pagan Press. "The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein" was praised by the critic Camille Paglia, who wrote in "Salon" that "Lauritsen assembles an overwhelming