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“The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).”

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Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America
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“The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.”

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Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America
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