The Big Sleep
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1h 39m
Directed by Michael Winner | 99 mins | 1978
The second screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 novel transposes the notably labyrinthine plot to 1970s London, with a deliciously weathered Robert Mitchum reprising the iconic role he’d recently assumed in "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975): Detective Philip Marlowe finds himself entangled in a web of pornography and murder after being hired to investigate the blackmail of a wealthy General (Jimmy Stewart, in one of his final performances).
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