Very Small Favor - The Big Sleep (1946)

[metallicstucco]

If that's the closest they came to having sex back then, it's a miracle I was conceived.

[grit1]

It's funny how this scene plays out. It doesn't even come close to this, at all. Marlowe just goes in and asks for some information and leaves.

It's interesting to see how much they changed not only this, but the entire movie. I wonder if Bogart had any influence in it.

[Jujuman2003]

This is so fucking retarded. Humphrey Bogart looks like a pervert who jerks off to Big Jugs Magazine, but in the movies, all the hot women are undressing him with their eyes. Give me a break.

[Piecesof8]

@Jujuman2003

One of those hot women, Lauren Bacall, married the guy. Charisma and confidence go a long way, and he had those in spades (no pun intended, Maltese Falcon fans).

[Jujuman2003]

@Piecesof8 She married him because he's Humphrey fucking Bogart, the rich Hollywood superstar. She wouldn't give him a second look if he were a penniless private eye as in this movie.

[Stannnnnnnnn]

@Jujuman2003 Your ignorance of the relationship between Bogart and Bacall is only exceeded by your obvious lack of experience with the fairer sex.

[DidiRibbons]

Bogart is Brilliant.

[leftcoaster67]

How come I can't find hot bookstore owners like this? Bogey gets them, and Eastwood in Magnum Force just has to come home to his apartment and he get's some. Some guys have all the luck.

[elSargent93]

Wooooooow. Definitely a new fantasy for me.

[cronicd21]

a private dick on a case? O.O

[level22productions]

@cronicd21 A lot of these old films weren't as innocent as you think, ya shee? *smokes a cigar*

[traditiobill]

Great movie but the more I thought about it, having read the novelette, I think it would have been better if they had done the story the way Raymond Chandler wrote it....the Mitchum re-make came closer but, Bogey in B/W would have been better...The romance w/the older sister doesn't work for me in the context of the story and Marlowe's character and the book's ending is better....

[Hyman74Roth]

I am SO envious of Bogart, the one sweet thing about Film Noir you when into babes all the time, its like a buffet of sexy women in The Big Sleep. I know The Cheap Detective top this movie by having Peter Falk in the end be in a taxi cab with all the lovely ladies he encountered.

[bloodxalibi]

I'm turning 17 this year. I have little knowledge about life back in that era, and when I watch movies like these, I don't expect anything except boring.

But this, oh my god, is FABULOUS. I think this is my favorite movie scene ever. This movie has begun to interest me, vaguely :)

[CountArtha]

Now I know what it was like to be the only man in Hollywood during World War II. Damn; I was born too late!

[RocketeerAndRoll]

Basically he is investigating a bookstore which is actually a front for pornography photos (which back then was illegal). The book and movie are both amazing.

[UtzChips2009]

I don't think this scene would have held the interest of the viewers without Dorothy.

[JubalCalif]

@UtzChips2009

I second that emotion! Dorothy's talent & her character's sexy but yet sweet manner are what make the scene a classic! Typical Howard Hawks male-female interaction with strong sexual undertones. THANKS for your thoughtful & insightful comment! :)

[AchillesShield]

No girl at Borders has ever looked at me like that!

[pumpsiegr]

Tommygun, good story about Dorothy Malone. I think she was 20 or 21 when this scene was filmed. She more than holds her own.

[JubalCalif]

@pumpsiegr

You got that right! Beautiful, sexy & talented...a real TRIPLE threat !!!

[MrValiant61]

Oh, i forgot to mention. Great scene.

[carliboy908]

I wish my local waterstones customer service was this good

[MrValiant61]

@carliboy908 Dammit!.....You beat me to it. I was going to make some half-assed ,so-called humourous comment about Waterstones as well.

[TwoTube2]

@carliboy908 ha, that would suddenly get a lot more people interested in reading :)

[carliboy908]

she's gorgeous

[jmbonell]

Extraordinary scene of one of the greatest masterpieces in cinema

[Hiraghm]

I like this movie.

The world was a better place back then.



[kswindl]

@Hiraghm hahaha, right. back in '46, every shop and street vendor was owned by a hot twenty-something who would fuck on a dime.

aaah, simpler times.

[greg5566]

Why did the world used to be so opposed to glasses? She was totally hot with the glasses on.

[vinciano]

By far my fav scene of all time. No Tarkovskiij and no Bergman sedue me in this way. ahahaha

[DanRioNY]

He's a private Dick on a case.

[PassiveKaerenai]

Whoa...Bogart didn't even have to take his hat off to make love. That's class.

[gtrrs71]

"You begin to interest me...vaguely."

Great scene.

Thank you Raymond Chandler.

Thank you grubydoman for posting!

Cheers.

[cricketclaps]

"So long Pal", awesome kiss off line, what girl could ask for more?

[fudgedogbannana]

Hellllo

[buzzclick500]

He wants to get wet in there. ;]

[hhhxxxhhh]

bogart is a fucking pimp here...

[Tommygun264]

I studied this movie in a college film class and the professor who taught the class told us that it was said that Dorothy Malone got so nervous when she got close to Bogart, that she kept shaking the paper cup as she held it up. Finally, after several blown takes, the prop master came up with the idea to put a small weight used to keep standing lights from tipping over in the bottom of her cup to keep it from shaking.

[JubalCalif]

@Tommygun264

Great story! Sound like that Warner Bros prop master was a pretty smart cookie. THANKS for sharing! :-)

[grainofsandfan]

Dorothy Malone is cute in this scene. Katie Holmes reminds me a little of her.

[theburt83]

Looks like a seamless montage: H. Bogart and Alicia Silverstone.

[hebneh]

This is a fantastic movie, even though it's incomprehensible. It LOOKS so good, and the acting's so good, that you don't really mind that you can't ever understand what happened.

This scene comes right after Bogie pretends to be a fussy gay man at the rare book store. He goes across the street to this bookstore and makes it clear in his interaction with this woman that he's definitely not gay - although, of course, it's all just implied. Still, we know something sexy happens.

[egosomnio]

@hebneh More just fussy than gay. ?v=-sNhPdJFZcQ

[vidcreations]

One of the most seductive scenes in a Bogart movie.