The Big Sleep Official Trailer, 1946

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. It stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the female lead in a film about the process of a criminal investigation, not its William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman cowrote the screenplay