"is too, a lack of grasp in Howard Hawks' handling, which is scrappy and uninventive."" On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Anchored by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's sparkling magnetism, ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" is a delightfully entertaining 1950s musical."" German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared it one of the ten best films ever made. Monroe and Russell were accorded the honor of putting their hand and foot prints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese"
"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 Sternwood. The story's setting was changed from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London. The film contained material more explicit than what could only be hinted at in the 1946 version, such as homosexuality, pornography"
"of Chandler's most famous creations, Philip Marlowe: ""The Long Goodbye"" (1973), ""Farewell, My Lovely"" (1975) and ""The Big Sleep"" (1978) the latter two both starring Robert Mitchum as Marlowe. In 1976 Kastner produced ""The Missouri Breaks"" starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. Kastner famously got each star to commit by lying and telling them the other one had already signed. In a 1977 article Mario Puzo wrote about the Cannes Film Festival said that a group of producers regarded Kastner as ""the greatest genius in the movie business... [he] has put together very big films, nearly all of which are"
"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 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles. The story is noted for its complexity, with characters double-crossing one another and secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination about ""sleeping the big sleep"" in the final pages of the book. In 1999, the book was voted 96th of ""Le Monde""s ""100 Books of the"
"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"
"is ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe. William Faulkner was a co-writer of the screenplay. Chandler's few screenwriting efforts and the cinematic adaptation of his novels proved stylistically and thematically influential on the American ""film noir"" genre. Notable for its revised take on both the Marlowe character, transplanting the novel to the 1970s, is Robert Altman's 1973 neo-noir adaptation of ""The Long Goodbye"". Chandler was also a perceptive critic of detective fiction; his essay ""The Simple Art of Murder"" is the canonical essay in the field. Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23,"
"The Long Goodbye (film) The Long Goodbye is a 1973 American thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same title. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who cowrote the screenplay for ""The Big Sleep"" in 1946. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, and Mark Rydell. The story's period was moved from 1949–50 to 1970s Hollywood. ""The Long Goodbye"" has been described as ""a study of a moral and decent man cast adrift in a selfish, self-obsessed society where lives can"
"and their opponents. When the film screened on TV in 1977, ABC cut off the final shooting. Notes Bibliography The Long Goodbye (film) The Long Goodbye is a 1973 American thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same title. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who cowrote the screenplay for ""The Big Sleep"" in 1946. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, and Mark Rydell. The story's period was moved from 1949–50 to 1970s Hollywood. ""The Long Goodbye"" has been described"
"that was screened for overseas servicemen, running two minutes longer and containing scenes not used in the official release."" Portions of the original release were used in ""Micmacs"", a film released in 2009 directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The main character Bazil is seen mouthing words from a French dubbed portion of the film in the beginning and the opening credits are then done in the same style. Portions of Steiner's music from the film are also used along with original music by Raphaël Beau. The Big Sleep (1946 film) The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard"
"Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, and eccentric horror and fantasy films such as ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990), ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" (1993), ""Ed Wood"" (1994), ""Sleepy Hollow"" (1999), ""Corpse Bride"" (2005), """" (2007), ""Dark Shadows"" (2012), and ""Frankenweenie"" (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy ""Pee-wee's Big Adventure"" (1985), the superhero films ""Batman"" (1989) and its first sequel ""Batman Returns"" (1992), the sci-fi film ""Planet of the Apes"" (2001), the fantasy drama ""Big"
"The Black Sleep The Black Sleep is a 1956 independently made American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins (from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams) and developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists. The film was directed by Reginald LeBorg and stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi (in his final film role), and Akim Tamiroff in a role originally written for Peter Lorre. Ed Wood-regular Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. The film was released as a double feature with the"
"(1976), an animal comedy Winner produced and directed starring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, and Milton Berle. Intended as a satire of Hollywood, it was a financial failure. Of modest success was his horror film ""The Sentinel"" (1977), which Winner wrote, produced and directed for Universal. It was based on a novel by Jeffrey Konvitz. Winner then wrote, produced and directed the remake of Raymond Chandler's novel ""The Big Sleep"" (1978), starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe with a strong support cast including John Mills, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone and Candy Clarke. The film was relocated to England and"
"guest) include Laurel and Hardy's ""Be Big"" (1930), Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers's ""Vivacious Lady"" (1938), Buster Keaton's ""Spite Marriage"" (1929) and ""Nothing But Pleasure"" (1940), Abbott and Costello's ""Hit the Ice"" (1943), several Three Stooges shorts (including 1952's ""Corny Casanovas""), ""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"", Bob Hope's ""Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number"" (1966), the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"", Mel Brooks's ""Silent Movie"", ""The Pink Panther Strikes Again"", ""The Great Muppet Caper"", ""Police Academy 2"", ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", "" Family Matters "", ""Spy Hard"", and ""Freddy vs. Jason"". Murphy beds have also"
"Babs (Moira Lister) during an argument. Grand National Night Grand National Night is a 1953 British thriller brought to the screen by George Minter under the production of Phil C. Samuel from a play by Campbell and Dorothy Christie. It was directed by Bob McNaught and starred Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister and Beatrice Campbell (Patrick's wife) with support from Michael Hordern, Noel Purcell and a cameo role from Colin Gordon. Cinematography was by Jack Asher. Previous to this film version Grand National Night had been presented as a BBC Radio serial as well as a stage play. Racehorse trainer Gerald"
"Arthur Penn Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American director and producer of film, television and theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama ""The Chase"" (1966), the biographical crime film ""Bonnie and Clyde"" (1967) and the comedy ""Alice's Restaurant"" (1969). He also got attention for his revisionist Western ""Little Big Man"" (1970). By the mid-1970s his films were received with much less enthusiasm. In the 1990s he returned to stage and television direction and production, including an executive producer role for the crime series ""Law & Order"". Penn"
"film star Ruth Chatterton; both he and Chatterton were highly praised. He performed alongside his son, Charles Belasco Jr., in the latter's debut in ""Lucrece"" c. 1932. Over his long career, he appeared in more than 60 films, starting with the silent film ""Big Horse Hank"" (1911). He is perhaps best known for his final film role, that of General Sternwood in the opening scenes of ""The Big Sleep"" (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He also played U.S. President James Monroe in ""The Monroe Doctrine"", a short film released in 1939. He died, aged 71, in Hollywood, California."
"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 Night (1951 film) The Big Night is a 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey, that features John Drew Barrymore, Preston Foster and Joan Lorring. The feature is based on a script written by Joseph Losey and Stanley Ellin, based on Ellin's novel ""Dreadful Summit"". Hugo Butler and Ring Lardner, Jr. also contributed to the screenplay, but were uncredited when the film was first released. On his teenaged son Georgie's birthday, Andy LaMain is beaten with a cane by Al Judge, a crippled newspaperman. He does not fight back, confusing Georgie, who also wonders why his widower"
"Edmund Goulding Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 silent film ""Three Live Ghosts"" alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick. Also in the early 1920s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray for films directed by her then husband Robert Z. Leonard. Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as ""Love"" (1927), ""Grand Hotel"" (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, ""Dark Victory"" (1939) with Bette Davis, and ""The Razor's Edge"" (1946) with"
"avid reader and an admirer of ""The Big Sleep"", then suggested Raymond Chandler. Wilder would later recall with disappointment his first meeting with Chandler. Envisioning a former private detective who had worked his own experiences into gritty prose, he instead met a man he would later describe as looking like an accountant. Chandler was new to Hollywood, but saw it as a golden opportunity. Not realizing that he would be collaborating with Wilder, he demanded $1,000 and said he would need at least a week to complete the screenplay, to which Wilder and Sistrom simply looked at one another in"
"Bigger Than Life Bigger Than Life is an American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope film made in 1956 directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, who also co-wrote and produced the film, about a school teacher and family man whose life spins out of control upon becoming addicted to cortisone. The film co-stars Barbara Rush as his wife and Walter Matthau as his closest friend, a fellow teacher. Though it was a box-office flop upon its initial release, many modern critics hail it as a masterpiece and brilliant indictment of contemporary attitudes towards mental illness and addiction. In 1963, Jean-Luc Godard"
"Grand National Night Grand National Night is a 1953 British thriller brought to the screen by George Minter under the production of Phil C. Samuel from a play by Campbell and Dorothy Christie. It was directed by Bob McNaught and starred Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister and Beatrice Campbell (Patrick's wife) with support from Michael Hordern, Noel Purcell and a cameo role from Colin Gordon. Cinematography was by Jack Asher. Previous to this film version Grand National Night had been presented as a BBC Radio serial as well as a stage play. Racehorse trainer Gerald Coates (Nigel Patrick) kills his wife"
"alluded to with cryptic references to photographs of Carmen wearing a ""Chinese dress"" and sitting in a ""Chinese chair"". The sexual orientation of Geiger and Lundgren goes unmentioned in the film because references to homosexuality were prohibited. The scene of Carmen in Marlowe's bed was replaced with a scene in which she appears, fully dressed, sitting in Marlowe's apartment, when he promptly kicks her out. The scene, shot in 1944, was entirely omitted in the 1945 cut but restored for the 1946 version. ""The Big Sleep"" is known for its convoluted plot. During filming, allegedly neither the director nor the"
"they have 2 sons. In 2014, the couple announced that they were divorcing. James Mangold James Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing the films ""Cop Land"" (1997), ""Girl, Interrupted"" (1999), ""Kate & Leopold"" (2001), ""Walk the Line"" (2005), """" (2007), and ""Knight and Day"" (2010). Mangold also directed the superhero films based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, ""The Wolverine"" (2013) and ""Logan"" (2017), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also produced and directed"
"James Mangold James Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing the films ""Cop Land"" (1997), ""Girl, Interrupted"" (1999), ""Kate & Leopold"" (2001), ""Walk the Line"" (2005), """" (2007), and ""Knight and Day"" (2010). Mangold also directed the superhero films based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, ""The Wolverine"" (2013) and ""Logan"" (2017), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also produced and directed pilots for the television series ""Men in Trees"" (2006–2008), ""NYC 22"" (2011–2012), and"
"Adam Sandler Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming a ""Saturday Night Live"" cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. He is best known for his roles in the films ""Billy Madison"" (1995), the sports comedies ""Happy Gilmore"" (1996) and ""The Waterboy"" (1998), the romantic comedy ""The Wedding Singer"" (1998), ""Big Daddy"" (1999), and ""Mr. Deeds"" (2002), and voicing Dracula in ""Hotel Transylvania"" (2012), ""Hotel Transylvania 2"" (2015), and """" (2018). Several of"
"""The Big Sleep"", although that film was set in the present day and in England, rather than shot as a period piece in the detective's customary setting of Los Angeles. Marlowe's client, Moose Malloy, is played by Jack O'Halloran, a former professional prizefighter. Mitchum called O'Halloran ""one great find on this picture. At least, he's a find if we can ever find him again... They hired him for $500 a week. He looked perfect for the part. One time he hit the producer. One of the producers. We had seven of them. We called them the Magnificent Seven. Jack was"
"state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 4, three scenes of mother with illegitimate child with wife of Baron, Reel 5, after the intertitle ""You are my wife and I stay here tonight"" eliminate all following scenes of man pounding bed, and, Reel 6, the intertitle ""Drunk with two wines — champagne and passion"". The Great Love (1918 film) The Great Love is a 1918 American silent war drama film directed and written by D. W. Griffith who, along with scenario writer Stanner E.V. Taylor, is credited as ""Captain Victor Marier"". The"
"French for ""black film"" (literal) or ""dark film"" (closer meaning), was first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era. Cinema historians and critics defined the category retrospectively. Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic film noirs were referred to as ""melodramas"". Whether film noir qualifies as a distinct genre is a matter of ongoing debate among scholars. Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private investigator (""The Big Sleep""), a plainclothes policeman"
"Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971) and ""Barry Lyndon"" (1975). He produced or associate produced six films with director Frank Oz, beginning with ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"" (1988). His other collaborations with Oz were ""What About Bob?"" (1991), ""Housesitter"" (1992), ""The Indian in the Cupboard"" (1995), ""Bowfinger"" (1999), and ""The Score"" (2001). Williams also produced ""The Big Sleep"" (1978), a remake of the 1946 film; ""Flash Gordon"" (1980); ""Ragtime"" (1981); ""The Bounty"" (1984), starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins; ""Manhunter"", (1986) which was directed by Michael Mann; and ""Daredevil"" (2003), a superhero film starring Ben Affleck. With Rosilyn Heller, Williams co-produced ""Who's"
"Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the psychological horror ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed ""Melvin and Howard"" (1980), ""Swing Shift"" (1984), ""Something Wild"" (1986), ""Married to the Mob"" (1988), the concert film ""Stop Making Sense"" (1984), ""Philadelphia"" (1993) and ""Rachel Getting Married"" (2008). Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, New York, the son of Dorothy Louise (""née"" Rogers) and Robert Eugene Demme,"
"Have Not"" (1944), ""The Big Sleep"" (1946) and ""Nightmare Alley"" (1947). He wrote credited screenplays for eight films directed by Josef Von Sternberg and an equal number for Howard Hawks. When he's brought up on the UK television program Scene By Scene, host Mark Cousins says, ""Furthman wrote some of your best lines and he also wrote for her (Marlene Deitrich), those sort of, sexy and ambiguous lines."" Lauren Bacall replies, ""He did? Well, that I didn't know. I asked Howard Hawks once, why he used Furthman; as he didn't write the entire screenplay. And he (Hawks) said, 'If there"
"John Landis John David Landis (; born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is best known for the comedy films that he has directed, such as ""National Lampoon's Animal House"" (1978), ""The Blues Brothers"" (1980), ""An American Werewolf in London"" (1981), ""Trading Places"" (1983), ""Three Amigos"" (1986), ""Coming to America"" (1988) and ""Beverly Hills Cop III"" (1994), and for directing Michael Jackson's music videos for ""Thriller"" (1983) and ""Black or White"" (1991). Landis was born into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirley Levine (née Magaziner) and Marshall Landis, an"