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About The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep exists as Hawks's 1946 Bogart classic plus Winner's 1978 London remake with Mitchum returning to Marlowe. The original adapts Chandler with Faulkner on script duty, while the remake updates the setting to seventies England.
Watch the 1946 film before the 1978 one since the remake riffs on it. Mitchum had already played Marlowe in Farewell My Lovely, making his return a second take rather than a continuation. The original adapts Chandler with Faulkner on script duty, while the remake updates the setting to seventies England with Mitchum returning.
Good to know
Release order is the viewing order for remake rather than continuity, so no alternate list applies. Either stands alone as a Chandler take. With no further version announced, these two films are the complete run. Release order is the viewing order for remake rather than continuity, so no alternate list applies to viewers. Either stands alone as a Chandler take with different Sternwoods. With no further version announced, these two films are the complete run.
