Very Small Favor - The Big Sleep (1946)

another clip from classic Howard Hawks noir movie

Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe
Dorothy Malone as Acme Bookstore seller

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  Film & Animation

[Jimmy Mecannic]

One of the most seductive scenes in a Bogart movie.

[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.

[pistorio79]

It's raining pretty hard out....I know, it's about to get wet in here..

Damn 1946, you horny as fuck.

[Toxin08]

swooooon

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

There are so many tricks that were used like that one is the classic films; before they had CGI, etc. The backstage crew were so creative. This also brings about a tension between Bogart & Malone. Bacall has often talked about her first scene with Bogart; which was also her first on-screen shot ever ("Any body got a match?...Thanks."); how she had to hold her head to keep it from shaking, thus, "The Look" was born. Amazing.

[zodiacbluesbaby]

'So long, pal'.

[Maria Pietraszewska]

Bardzo lubię Bogarta w roli prywatnego detektywa

[Cleon29Warrior]

I'm a private dick on the case.

[JubalCalif]

He knows that when it comes to dames, candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ! :-)

[JubalCalif]

It begins to interest me...vaugely...  :-)

[JubalCalif]

Didn't Jerry Lee Lewis write a song about all that shakin' that was goin' on ???