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 Big Book Of eyes. Published in 2000 and written by Jonathan Vankin, the "Big Book of the '70s" documents ten years of "tackiness and tumult." From disco to polyester fashion, the final "Big Book" itemizes the fads, personalities, slang, and social insanity that infected the 1970s (as well as the Vietnam War and some classic films). The Big Book Of The Big Book Of is a series of graphic novel anthologies published by American company DC Comics imprint Paradox Press. The "Big Books" were published between 1994 and 2000. Just over half of them (ten out of seventeen) were written by a single