The Big Sleep racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. G. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" (1939) who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. However susceptible film personalities were to blackmail, it was not the métier of book dealers." The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946
The Big Snooze on the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly, "Ah " "The Big Snooze" is available in a restored, uncensored version on the "" DVD set, as part of the compilation "What's Up, Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny" on "", and on the Boomerang streaming service. The Big Snooze The Big Snooze is a 1946 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" cartoon directed by an uncredited Bob Clampett, his final theatrical cartoon for Warner and completed it before he left the Warner cartoon studio. Its title was inspired by the 1939 book "The Big Sleep", and its 1946 film adaptation, also a