The Big Sleep is a perfect combo of Film Noir and Screwball Comedy, from the master director Howard Hawks. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are at their best in this. Shoutout to Dorothy Malone, Martha Vickers, and Sonia Darrin as well(3 more actresses shown in this clip).
the greatness of this movie is manyfold; great original story, script doesn't insult your intelligence, superb acting, one must think to the plot, more............
@leoscheibelhut940 Chandler wrote this book before coming back to the states...it wasn't published here...check it out, if you can find it...8 stories... These are his originals... His reason for the rewrite, of the stories we know today, was he didn't think that they were good enough...
I think Bogie and Dorothy are more interesting than Bogie and Bacall. Also, Dorothy doesn't take off her glasses reflexively, just because a man interests her. He's the one who asks, she isn't self-conscious about them. I like this brunette, smart, confident Dorothy better than the blonde alcoholic mess that won her an Oscar for "Written on the Wind."
I haven't watched this great movie since I was teen. It's great, I love the time period and in black and white. And the old cars in the movie. And the music, and the cinematography. A 100 years from now, people will still love this movie.
well the routine is from that time so what do you expect? you want to go back and rewrite it or leave that part out? of course it gets old. it is old.it is part of the film. so inane a comment.would u boo in the cinema if you heard it?jeez.get with the context
I got a little thrill playing the video game L.A. Noire. I found Geiger's Bookstore and, sure enough, if you look across the street, there's Acme Books.
People often don't realize how much dry humor is baked into Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books, and it looks as if this film captures it well. I'll have to seek out the full version.
Being an Howard Hawks movie it's always "characters and entertainment over anything else". Much like Chandler, the mood is all that matters. The Big Sleep is the noir's noir.
These two book store scenes especially the second one with Dorothy Malone, the latter teasing the production code at the time, are among my favorite moments in the film & Bogart has a fine time playing both of them it seems.
Even their cartoons have a sound. The sense of space around the characters. Amazingly I found out at a party at Isabelle Allende's place. A guest was a composer who had been in the sound stage. It was exactly that. Their unique sound stage acoustics. Listen to Fog Horn Leg Horn and you can hear the room.
As an opinion, Dorothy Malone’s performance in this book store scene to me is quite exceptional. Was she capable of that depth of feelings (a great actress) or was she actually making a bit of a play for Bogart? Believe Bogart was in the beginning stages of his relationship with Bacall. Not that Malone wanted to move in, but perhaps just trying the “waters” as it were. Regardless, one of my favorite scenes.
@rrsteamer........By all accounts, 19-year-old Malone was so nervous appearing opposite Bogart in this scene, her hands couldn't stop shaking and she kept spilling her drink. Hawks eventually solved the problem by putting lead weights in her cup.
@@thesoultwins72 Well, certainly hadn’t heard that story. Even so, she did a nice job and signs of nervousness were not evident. It would appear that the little bit of help from the director was enough to complete the scene nicely. Thanks for the info!
@@rrsteamer ........You're welcome. Although not my favourite film adaptation of Chandler's genius writing - it is still an exceptionally good film. And as you say, despite only a very brief cameo, Dorothy Malone performed her part really well.
Noirs are true INTIMITE Conversations, and it is best to hold them at night - preferably during rainy nights! ... Oh, they are also best - mighty best! - in Black & White, so to allow us to color their shades and tones with the 'Colors' of our feelings!
Don’t try to figure out the plot of this film based on this entire clip. You never will. It’s incomprehensible - but very enjoyable and worth watching regardless.
Marlowe's questions about those rare books, with very specific misprints ("third edition with a duplicated line on p.116") sound like an in-joke between book collectors. Books aren't like rare stamps in that way; a special misprint or typo on a page doesn't make them into special collectibles. :) Wonderful film, a real classic.
@@Rozsaphile Incidentally, there was a scam Ponzi scheme in France some years ago where a man, assisted by two antiquarian book sellers, talked up the value of some supposedly rare manuscripts by the Marquise de Sade (a wayward classic with some parts of the French literate public) and goaded people into paying serious money to own shares in these manuscripts, then urging them to find a new tier of customers so they could get paid by them for owning further small parts of those notebooks or whatever...This is a real "only in France" thing. 😀
Hmm I wonder what they're suggesting went on in that bookstore that we werent privy to during this little episode. They should have shown him doing up his tie. Never would have got past the sensors! I've have seen this film 20 times, conservative estimate. Just ask my wife!😊
NOTE: Back then there were legal issues of using a name that could already be copyrighted elsewhere - and thus, being exposed to potential lawsuits. ... Keep in mind that back then there were no powerful computers (just clunky analog mechanical ones) to both store and search for hypothetically considered names - let alone, no internet, Google, etc., of course. ... Not sure about the name of the bookstore across the street. .. It could be one of many that Hollywood pre-copyrighted to use in films. ... BTW, Digital Computing, as universally used all over, was invented by 30's & 40's & 50's actress, Hedy Lamarr, who was not only stunningly beautiful but a true MENSA genius. ... She came up with the framework of digital computing while inventing and devising 'STEALTH TRANSMISSION' of electronic signals that made torpedoes stealthy in their signatures against detection. .. (She, of course, got a patent for this.)
@@EJP286CRSKW Hedy Lamarr invented Frequency Hopping, later used in cell phones. The U.S. government stole her invention during WWII. I don't know if she held a patent or not, but she didn't file for compensation when she had the chance and missed the deadline.
This , Casablanca, great last line , The Maltese Falcon , the best last line ever , The Roaring Twenties, key Largo , And Cagney why The Roaring Twenties is so good , love it , even if he did have to stand on a box in Casablanca to be taller the Bregman , she was taller by an inch or two . Cheers . R
😂😂😂 I love it this is my first time seeing this but I love to dialect when he slapped in the face and said lady on there and be quiet oh my God later and be quiet
Watching a lot of Black n white movies lately reminds me how simple & normal people once were. Everyone has been lead to believe technology helps us so much meanwhile everyone's attention span is now 1.5 seconds.
There was some kind of falling-out with her and the studio and while they couldn’t remove her from the movie, they didn’t credit her or employ her again. Meanwhile she’s one of the best parts of this film.
@@hebneh After about 1950 she seemed to disappear off the earth, at least pre-Internet. Yet she was the last surviving major performer in the film, dying in 2020 at the age of 96.
NOTE: Back then there were legal issues of using a name that could already be copyrighted elsewhere - and thus, being exposed to potential lawsuits. ... Keep in mind that back then there were no powerful computers (just clunky analog mechanical ones) to both store and search for hypothetically considered names - let alone, no internet, Google, etc., of course. ... Not sure about the name of the bookstore across the street. .. It could be one of many that Hollywood pre-copyrighted to use in films. ... BTW, Digital Computing, as universally used all over, was invented by 30's & 40's & 50's actress, Hedy Lamarr, who was not only stunningly beautiful but a true MENSA genius. ... She came up with the framework of digital computing while inventing and devising 'STEALTH TRANSMISSION' of electronic signals that made torpedoes stealthy in their signatures against detection. .. (She, of course, got a patent for this.)
"Acme" was a popular real-world name for businesses and products in 20th-century America -- it means "highest point, peak, summit" etc. Chuck Jones had tongue firmly in cheek when he adopted it as the name for the business that foisted invariably disastrous products on Wyle E. Coyote...
This kind of thing has never happened to me with the dames. Say, what gives? Maybe I need to start carrying a flask of rye, and develop a manner of speaking like Bogie. Shay shweetheart.
'A dead body is heavier than a broken heart' - Man, I wanted to like Raymond Chandler but between the implausible plots and convenient behaviour = cheese
Good acting, of course, but this is a travesty for anyone who has read the book. Apart from completely changing the dialogue and the appearance of every character (including Marlowe himself), they also went off on a storyline that's not only not in the book, it's not in character for Philip Marlowe. I should have expected no less when I saw they had cast Bogart in the title role. In the books, Philip Marlowe was six foot three and broad-shouldered. Bogart was nowhere near that. It's like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.
That hat brim move and the dark glasses ... worth it. But the rye in the pocket - clean Ace. And when he leaves, says "so long, pal". Beautiful.
Absolutely.One of my favorite scenes in the movie,Wish he returned to the Acme Bookstore.Also wish he hooked up with the female cabdriver,!
Careful, I don't slap so good this time of evening. Great line. (--:
I liked when he told the librarian shortly before this, "I keep blondes in a bottle, too."
@@alansorensen5903 I stash redheads in my closet and blondes under the bed.
total classic
This scene is the best argument for small, independent bookstores.
The Big Sleep is a perfect combo of Film Noir and Screwball Comedy, from the master director Howard Hawks. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are at their best in this. Shoutout to Dorothy Malone, Martha Vickers, and Sonia Darrin as well(3 more actresses shown in this clip).
the greatness of this movie is manyfold; great original story, script doesn't insult your intelligence, superb acting, one must think to the plot, more............
It is not an original story. It is based on a novel.
@@hectorrodriguez2686 .......The genius of Raymond Chandler
I'm currently rereading my Chandler. Gods, what a brilliant writer.
Interestingly, he had the same literary teacher as P.G. Wodehouse, who was a rather successful writer himself.
@johnkeenan1829 Whenever I read Chandler he is my favorite author, until I reread Hammett.
You said about rereading Mr Chandler...
Have you read "Killer in the rain" ?
@@kirk4086 It sounds familiar but I can't remember the plot, like I read over ten years ago. Remind me?
@leoscheibelhut940 Chandler wrote this book before coming back to the states...it wasn't published here...check it out, if you can find it...8 stories...
These are his originals...
His reason for the rewrite, of the stories we know today, was he didn't think that they were good enough...
Never gets old- except for the “men don’t make passes” routine.
Dorothy Malone makes one hell of an impression!
Bogie and Bacall great movies
I think Bogie and Dorothy are more interesting than Bogie and Bacall. Also, Dorothy doesn't take off her glasses reflexively, just because a man interests her. He's the one who asks, she isn't self-conscious about them. I like this brunette, smart, confident Dorothy better than the blonde alcoholic mess that won her an Oscar for "Written on the Wind."
@@lemorab1 I was referring to the Dorothy Parker quote. Or one of those Algonquin Round Table sages.
I haven't watched this great movie since I was teen. It's great, I love the time period and in black and white. And the old cars in the movie. And the music, and the cinematography. A 100 years from now, people will still love this movie.
well the routine is from that time so what do you expect? you want to go back and rewrite it or leave that part out? of course it gets old. it is old.it is part of the film. so inane a comment.would u boo in the cinema if you heard it?jeez.get with the context
Wow.
That woman in the second bookstore really stole the scene.
Looks and acting wise.
☮
I thought she looked fine with the glasses, even better.
That’s Dorothy Malone…who later appeared in the TV series “Payton Place”.
@nedludd7622 LOL, I was thinking the same exact thing!!! She certainly held her own with Bogie too!
A classic! The cars, the clothes, the dames: they don't make 'em like that any more.
I got a little thrill playing the video game L.A. Noire. I found Geiger's Bookstore and, sure enough, if you look across the street, there's Acme Books.
Great Game! I didn't notice that. I'll have to look.
@@mosinmeister25 I did a guided play through of the story (looked up online hints, walkthroughs) just to have the free roaming of 40s Los Angeles.
That's awesome.
This is one of my favorite scenes in cinema! Bogart is great but she's perfection!
People often don't realize how much dry humor is baked into Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books, and it looks as if this film captures it well. I'll have to seek out the full version.
Being an Howard Hawks movie it's always "characters and entertainment over anything else". Much like Chandler, the mood is all that matters. The Big Sleep is the noir's noir.
Incredible. Two bookstores. Both still economically viable and within easy walking distance. Seems like a utopia today.
These two book store scenes especially the second one with Dorothy Malone, the latter teasing the production code at the time, are among my favorite moments in the film & Bogart has a fine time playing both of them it seems.
What is the code? Where can it be found?
These Warner Bros pictures always have a unique look and sound. Unmistakable.
Even their cartoons have a sound. The sense of space around the characters. Amazingly I found out at a party at Isabelle Allende's place. A guest was a composer who had been in the sound stage. It was exactly that. Their unique sound stage acoustics. Listen to Fog Horn Leg Horn and you can hear the room.
As an opinion, Dorothy Malone’s performance in this book store scene to me is quite exceptional. Was she capable of that depth of feelings (a great actress) or was she actually making a bit of a play for Bogart? Believe Bogart was in the beginning stages of his relationship with Bacall. Not that Malone wanted to move in, but perhaps just trying the “waters” as it were. Regardless, one of my favorite scenes.
@rrsteamer........By all accounts, 19-year-old Malone was so nervous appearing opposite Bogart in this scene, her hands couldn't stop shaking and she kept spilling her drink. Hawks eventually solved the problem by putting lead weights in her cup.
@@thesoultwins72 Well, certainly hadn’t heard that story. Even so, she did a nice job and signs of nervousness were not evident. It would appear that the little bit of help from the director was enough to complete the scene nicely. Thanks for the info!
@@rrsteamer ........You're welcome. Although not my favourite film adaptation of Chandler's genius writing - it is still an exceptionally good film. And as you say, despite only a very brief cameo, Dorothy Malone performed her part really well.
WAS LAUREN MAIN STAR OR MALONE
She was only 19?
Noirs are true INTIMITE Conversations, and it is best to hold them at night - preferably during rainy nights! ... Oh, they are also best - mighty best! - in Black & White, so to allow us to color their shades and tones with the 'Colors' of our feelings!
The black and white photography puts just enough light on the subjects in the rain during the car scene at the middle of this clip.
Wow, look at those cars!
The hell with Peyton Place, this is Dorothy Malone's finest hour. She gets Canuck-cred for being in an episode of "The Littlest Hobo" too.
Great movie. Was the librarian suggesting an after noon delight 😂
Sky rockets in flight.
Yup. Very subtle, because of censorship.
Don’t try to figure out the plot of this film based on this entire clip. You never will. It’s incomprehensible - but very enjoyable and worth watching regardless.
Totally fell in love with Dorothy Malone from this scene
I also, I thought she was the best looking women in the movie, wish she had a bigger role in the film.
@@Bogie0315: Dorothy Malone is very attractive, but I feel Martha Vickers is a notch higher in the looks category.
Pretty, bookish girl. Hope he got more than a book marker. 😘😘😘😘
Is that a bottle of rye in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Geiger's "shadow," Lundgren, was his live-in boy toy in the book.
The ‘studio’ rain always puts my in mind of Bladerunner.
I used to watch these movies as a kid
Now you watch them as an old man.
It's a really good book by Raymond Chandler. Probably his best.
Marlowe's questions about those rare books, with very specific misprints ("third edition with a duplicated line on p.116") sound like an in-joke between book collectors. Books aren't like rare stamps in that way; a special misprint or typo on a page doesn't make them into special collectibles. :) Wonderful film, a real classic.
Not to mention that "Ben-Hur" wasn't published until 1880.
@@Rozsaphile Incidentally, there was a scam Ponzi scheme in France some years ago where a man, assisted by two antiquarian book sellers, talked up the value of some supposedly rare manuscripts by the Marquise de Sade (a wayward classic with some parts of the French literate public) and goaded people into paying serious money to own shares in these manuscripts, then urging them to find a new tier of customers so they could get paid by them for owning further small parts of those notebooks or whatever...This is a real "only in France" thing. 😀
👨🏽🏫🎉Thanks for the first thought. Yes, a rare book is not like a rare stamp. I just got schooled. A book collector’s inside joke. Yes.
Yes . Priceless
@@Rozsaphile He was testing her knowledge of books. She had no knowledge.
My absolute favorite Bogie movie.
that final line? so hilarious. (I mean, the whole thing is great but)
The characters name is Agnes and she is the coolest character in this great classic
Great film.
Imagine the world working like this.
Yikes! He left fingerprints on everything in Geiger's house!
Hmm I wonder what they're suggesting went on in that bookstore that we werent privy to during this little episode. They should have shown him doing up his tie. Never would have got past the sensors! I've have seen this film 20 times, conservative estimate. Just ask my wife!😊
Hope we can have the whole film. Saw the robert mitchum version but nothing bet the bogie original
NOTE: Back then there were legal issues of using a name that could already be copyrighted elsewhere - and thus, being exposed to potential lawsuits. ... Keep in mind that back then there were no powerful computers (just clunky analog mechanical ones) to both store and search for hypothetically considered names - let alone, no internet, Google, etc., of course. ... Not sure about the name of the bookstore across the street. .. It could be one of many that Hollywood pre-copyrighted to use in films. ... BTW, Digital Computing, as universally used all over, was invented by 30's & 40's & 50's actress, Hedy Lamarr, who was not only stunningly beautiful but a true MENSA genius. ... She came up with the framework of digital computing while inventing and devising 'STEALTH TRANSMISSION' of electronic signals that made torpedoes stealthy in their signatures against detection. .. (She, of course, got a patent for this.)
Err, no. Digital computing was invented by Charles Babbage in the 19th century. Hedy did invent something akin to cell phone protocols.
@@EJP286CRSKW Hedy Lamarr invented Frequency Hopping, later used in cell phones. The U.S. government stole her invention during WWII. I don't know if she held a patent or not, but she didn't file for compensation when she had the chance and missed the deadline.
l loved Dorothy Malone's part in the film, I liked her better as a brunette as she went blond in many of her later films.
This , Casablanca, great last line , The Maltese Falcon , the best last line ever , The Roaring Twenties, key Largo , And Cagney why The Roaring Twenties is so good , love it , even if he did have to stand on a box in Casablanca to be taller the Bregman , she was taller by an inch or two . Cheers . R
😂😂😂 I love it this is my first time seeing this but I love to dialect when he slapped in the face and said lady on there and be quiet oh my God later and be quiet
Wish this was in English
Please take some writing lessons...please, please, please...
Cutting the intro music and credits really detracts from the experience
Classy stuff.
These women are gorgeous lol.
Watching a lot of Black n white movies lately reminds me how simple & normal people once were. Everyone has been lead to believe technology helps us so much meanwhile everyone's attention span is now 1.5 seconds.
Dorothy Malone ! Even more more seductive with glasses. For me she was the real star of "The Big Sleep".
Even Martha Vickers too 😊
Hollywood at its best..
We'll always have Geiger - we didn't have, we lost him until he turned up in the bed. We got him back last night.
Who plays the Geiger bookstore assistant?
Sonia Darrin.
@@azohundred1353 Thanks!
Dorothy was some babe in her youth.
Concerning "The Big Sleep"
Check out "Killer in the Rain"
See how it was originally wrote before he changed it...
Movies like this are no longer allowed.
Well you have to get frisked first.
Maybe there isn’t anyone who knows how to make a movie like this these days.
@@mcd22630 Humphrey Bogart wouldn't make it in today's Hollywood. Marlowe would be played by a diversity hire.
I have some rye in my pocket as well!
So long,Pal
I was surprised that Sonia Darrin wasn't in the credits.
There was some kind of falling-out with her and the studio and while they couldn’t remove her from the movie, they didn’t credit her or employ her again. Meanwhile she’s one of the best parts of this film.
@@hebneh After about 1950 she seemed to disappear off the earth, at least pre-Internet. Yet she was the last surviving major performer in the film, dying in 2020 at the age of 96.
I've watched big sleep more times than I can count and it never grows old. The remake with mitchum is just about unwatchable.
ACME?!?!?
NOTE: Back then there were legal issues of using a name that could already be copyrighted elsewhere - and thus, being exposed to potential lawsuits. ... Keep in mind that back then there were no powerful computers (just clunky analog mechanical ones) to both store and search for hypothetically considered names - let alone, no internet, Google, etc., of course. ... Not sure about the name of the bookstore across the street. .. It could be one of many that Hollywood pre-copyrighted to use in films. ... BTW, Digital Computing, as universally used all over, was invented by 30's & 40's & 50's actress, Hedy Lamarr, who was not only stunningly beautiful but a true MENSA genius. ... She came up with the framework of digital computing while inventing and devising 'STEALTH TRANSMISSION' of electronic signals that made torpedoes stealthy in their signatures against detection. .. (She, of course, got a patent for this.)
"Acme" was a popular real-world name for businesses and products in 20th-century America -- it means "highest point, peak, summit" etc. Chuck Jones had tongue firmly in cheek when he adopted it as the name for the business that foisted invariably disastrous products on Wyle E. Coyote...
Acme was a common name for businesses back then. Like Apex.
No products for Wile E. Coyote were sold at this bookstore, however.
Oh please!
Bogey, the G.O.A.T. The reason I became a P.I.
I don´t know why Dorothy Marlowe wore always blonde hair, she was even tremendously mor pretty and beautiful with black hair
WOW Dorothy Malone was IT.... Just my luck I'd be in the same situation and some idiot would try to come in the book store to get out of the rain
Martha Vickers was hot!
She reminds me of mak. Just vaguely if you squint real hard
They didnt shower after drinks and things. lol
GRAPEFRUIT?
Bogart was party size
Awful lot of good looking dames in those book stores!
Sex drugs and murder. Yeah thats the forties all right.
Malone is adorable. This is so good i can almost forgive the cheapass sets.
This kind of thing has never happened to me with the dames. Say, what gives? Maybe I need to start carrying a flask of rye, and develop a manner of speaking like Bogie. Shay shweetheart.
Robert Michum did a good in job......his should of longer. Robert
'A dead body is heavier than a broken heart' - Man, I wanted to like Raymond Chandler but between the implausible plots and convenient behaviour = cheese
like hearing the main theme of one movement of a concerto , this sucks.......give us the movie ,
I will always be on the side of Moses ...I do not choose this ...choice made for me ...less Vincent, more Holy Trinity 😍
Good acting, of course, but this is a travesty for anyone who has read the book. Apart from completely changing the dialogue and the appearance of every character (including Marlowe himself), they also went off on a storyline that's not only not in the book, it's not in character for Philip Marlowe. I should have expected no less when I saw they had cast Bogart in the title role. In the books, Philip Marlowe was six foot three and broad-shouldered. Bogart was nowhere near that. It's like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.
Only in the movies 19 year girls fall for middle age men.
They do in real life...if the man has plenty of money.
Miss Bacall Mrs. Bogart same age.
@@svjim1 He was 25 years her senior 🙄 Old perv
Reported for Homophobia
Who’s this actor?
Name’s Humphrey Bogart.
@@VentrueCapital
Thanks. He’s famous, I know him, but my brain couldn’t fetch his name :)