The Big Sleep 1978

The Big Sleep, directed by Michael Winner, 1978. With Robert Mithchum, Sarah Miles, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, Sir John Mills, James Stewar, Oliver Reed and Simon Fisher Turner!

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[wewantsthering]

Wow...this looks really sucky compared to the Bogart version...

[cb4life100]

Why was this movie even made?

[otochari]

"If you listen real hard you'll hear my teeth chatter" Lol, classic.

[monk22yrs]

@wewantsthering looks arent deceiving...lots of bad acting in this movie; acting comes off like some agatha christie drawing room mystery.

[wiseass2147]

Yeah, so a lot of stuff had to be left out of the bogart version because of the hays code. dirty books, gay dudes, naked girls etc., so a post hayes remake makes sense, but why london? and putting it in contempory times is a mistake. has to be a period peice in the 40's.

[CesMan83]

@cb4life100

The only reason why I watched it was due to Mitchum. I'm a bigger fan of that guy than I ever was for Bogart! That being said, this remake is unfortunately inferior to the great original

[MrLunitunz]

@flhinton Certainly not, and I'm not trying to argue that it was. Simply to argue that, of all of them, Bogart was the most like Marlowe, in life and in his other roles. 

[flhinton]

@MrLunitunz I don't want to argue which actor or performance was the best. To me, they each stand on their own. The only actor that played Marlowe that I didn't like was Elliot Gould. But, Bogart, Powell and even Montgomery's performances stand on their own. They each brought their own interpretation to the character, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[MrLunitunz]

@flhinton There was the film. Then he did an adaptation of The Long Goodbye for the Climax! TV series, that particular show famous for having one of the villains, who'd been shot dead, just get up and walk off stage while still on camera. And he played Marlowe a couple of times on radio. This in addition to being Richard Diamond.

[flhinton]

@MrLunitunz Dick Powell only portrayed Marlowe in one film. You might be thinking of his radio show, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. That is a particular favorite of mine. I wasn't comparing the two. I said that Powell brought something significant to the role. Murder My Sweet was the only movie he made based on one of Raymond Chandler's novels.

[MrLunitunz]

@flhinton I could see how one would think Dick Powell to be the definitive Marlowe, he's played him more times than anyone else, including Bogart. But y'know, the other two's film adaptations kinda leave a lot to be desired. I don't think that, aside from those two, there will ever be anyone capable of playing Marlowe well, on the big screen or the small one. He's an anachronism now. Chivalry is dead, the hard-boiled mode is, at least in normal proportions, dead.

[flhinton]

@MrLunitunz I've seen Bogart in The Big Sleep. I have it on DVD. I think that Bogart was excellent as Marlowe. But, I also liked Dick Powell in the role. He gave a different take on the character, as did Robert Montgomery. And later on, James Garner. While I think Bogart's portrayal of the character was the best, I also like the other three.