The Big Sleep (1978 film) Winner "ploughs step by step through the complicated plot with a curious lack of interest in, among other things, the nature of his hero's character." "The Big Sleep" has been released twice on DVD: The Big Sleep (1978 film) The Big Sleep is a 1978 British neo-noir film, the second film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. The picture was directed by Michael Winner and stars Robert Mitchum in his second film portrayal of the detective Philip Marlowe. The cast includes Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, and Oliver Reed, also featuring James Stewart as General
The Big Sleep (1978 film) "senselessly gaudy" and "overloaded with big names, and in this case the net effect of an all-star cast is to make an already confusing mystery even harder to follow." Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "All of the zigs and zags of the original story are in the remake; what's missing is the enthusiasm. Talented actors such as Edward Fox and Oliver Reed sleepwalk through their parts." Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" panned the film as "a flat, routine procedural detective mystery utterly devoid of any "film noir"