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 Sleep (1946 film) a tone of voice that keeps its distance, and yet is wry and humorous and cares. In a 1997 review, Eric Brace of "The Washington Post" wrote that the 1945 original had a "slightly slower pace than the one released a year later, and a touch less zingy interplay between Bogart and Bacall, but it's still an unqualified masterpiece." In 2003, AFI named protagonist Philip Marlowe the 32nd greatest hero in film. "Empire" magazine added "The Big Sleep" to their Masterpiece collection in the October 2007 issue. The film placed 202nd on the 2012 "Sight & Sound" critics' poll of