The Big Sleep
(El sueño eterno / Al borde del abismo / El gran sueño)
(USA, 1946) [B/N, 114 m.].
Género: Cine negro, Thriller, Drama criminal / Adaptaciones literarias.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Howard Hawks.
Argumento: Raymond Chandler (novela, "
The Big Sleep" 1939).
Guión: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman.
Fotografía: Sidney Hickox (B&W)
Música: Max Steiner.
Producción: Howard Hawks (no acreditado), Jack L. Warner.
Productora: Warner Bros. Pictures (Warner Bros.-First National Pictures Inc.).
Reparto: Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe), Lauren Bacall (Vivian Sternwood Rutledge), John Ridgely (Eddie Mars), Martha Vickers (Carmen Sternwood), Charles D. Brown (Norris, The Butler), Elisha Cook, Jr. (Harry Jones), Charles Waldron (General Sternwood), Tom Fadden (Sidney), James Flavin (Captain Cronjager [1945 version only]), Louis Jean Heydt (Joe Brody), Sonia Darrin (Agnes Lowzier), Regis Toomey (Bernie Olds), Peggy Knudsen (Mona Mars), Tom Raffery (Carol Lundgren), Bob Steele (Canino), Theodore Von Eltz (Arthur Gwynne Geiger), Dorothy Malone (Book Seller), Ben Welden (Pete), Trevor Bardette (Art Huck), Joy Barlowe (Taxi Driver), Deannie Best (Waitress), Tanis Chandler (Waitress), Jack Chefe (Croupier), Joseph Crehan (Medical Examiner), Thomas E. Jackson (District Attorney Wilde), Lorraine Miller (Hat Check Girl), Forbes Murray (Furtive Man), Shelby Payne (Cigarette Girl), Jack Perry (Mars' Thug), Emmett Vogan (Deputy Sheriff), Paul Weber (Mars' Thug).
Sinopsis: Un general millonario y excéntrico tiene dos hijas que están involucradas en asuntos más bien turbios. Por esta razón, llama al detective privado Philip Marlowe, para que le ayude a solucionar sus problemas familiares. Marlowe comienza a investigar, pero descubre que cada uno de los problemas se ramifica, y el caso se convierte en una auténtica maraña. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Poco más se puede pedir: el maestro Howard Hawks en la dirección, Sid Hickox encargado de la fotografía, una banda sonora del gran Max Steiner y Bogart y Bacall en la pantalla. A partir de la brillante novela de Raymond Chandler -sembrada de diálogos insuperables-, tres de los mejores guionistas de Hollywood -entre ellos William Faulkner- adaptaron esté clásico que sigue en la cima del género. Un par de años antes casi el mismo equipo -todos en la Warner- habían creado ya otra obra maestra: "
Tener y no tener". (Pablo Kurt: FILMAFFINITY)
De detectives, chantajes, asesinos y mujeres fatales.
El detective Philip Marlowe es contratado por el General Sternwood para aclarar la súbita desaparición de su hombre de confianza. A partir de aquí Marlowe se ve envuelto en un auténtico laberinto salpicado de asesinatos, desapariciones, fotos comprometedoras, chantajistas y pistoleros. Humphrey Bogart y Lauren Bacall, probablemente la pareja más mítica de la historia del cine, protagonizan este apasionante "thriller", que es considerado en la actualidad un auténtico clásico del cine negro.
Howard Hawks, basándose en un relato de Raymond Chandler adaptado por William Faulkner, dirige esta película en la que la acción y la intriga están acompañados de unos de los mejores diálogos plasmados en la gran pantalla. El siempre eficaz Max Steiner está a cargo de una excelente banda sonora, que realza el climax de la película. La celebre pareja protagonista se ve acompañada por unos excelentes actores secundarios, entre los que destacan Martha Vickers y Dorothy Malone (
DeCine21).
- J.A. Souto Pacheco: "El sueño más negro", Miradas de Cine.
- Andrés Daly: "Una película al día #142: “El Sueño Eterno” (1946)", 35 milímetros.
- "El sueño eterno (1946), de Chandler a Hawks pasando por Faulkner y legando un Bogart", Crítica Cortinesca.
- El sueño eterno (The Big Sleep, 1946), Claqueta.
AMG SYNOPSIS: The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers). This earns Marlowe the displeasure of Carmen's sloe-eyed, seemingly straight-laced older sister Vivian (Bacall), who is fiercely protective of her somewhat addled sibling. As he pursues the case at hand, Marlowe gets mixed up in the murder of Arthur Geiger (Theodore von Eltz), a dealer in pornography. He also runs afoul of gambling-house proprietor Eddie Mars (John Ridgely), who seems to have some sort of hold over the enigmatic Vivian. Any further attempts to outline the plot would be futile: the storyline becomes so complicated and convoluted that even screenwriters William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthmann were forced to consult Raymond Chandler for advice (he was as confused by the plot as the screenwriters). When originally prepared for release in 1945, The Big Sleep featured a long exposition scene featuring police detective Bernie Ohls (Regis Toomey) explaining the more obscure plot details. This expository scene was ultimately sacrificed, along with several others, in favor of building up Bacall's part; for instance, a climactic sequence was reshot to emphasize sexual electricity between Bogart and Bacall, obliging Warners to replace a supporting player who'd gone on to another project. The end result was one of the most famously baffling film noirs but also one of the most successful in sheer star power. -- Hal Erickson
AMG REVIEW: Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep is one of the most influential detective movies ever to come out of Hollywood, ranking with John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, which also starred Humphrey Bogart. What makes the film's success astonishing is that it had a troubled post-production history, requiring extensive reshooting, and a script that, in its final version, is so filled with blind alleys and red herrings that no one was exactly sure what the movie was about. The original Raymond Chandler novel had one of that author's more impenetrable plots, with a series of murders that constitute more of a web than a chain, and included key details, involving drug use and pornography, that had to be soft-pedalled in the movie. In the final cut of the film and the final draft of the script, no one ever explains who killed chauffeur Owen Taylor, and it's almost impossible to tell why fully a third of the other killings in the movie took place. Moreover, if it is important to the viewer to know what Arthur Gwynn Geiger is selling out of his bookstore, one has to read the book to find out. Hawks breezed past all of these potential problems by letting the dialogue and the action spill out so fast that one barely had time to acknowledge, much less absorb, a new fact or plot element before the next one was upon the viewer. Where he did slow down was in the fiercely sexual repartee between Bogart's Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall's Mrs. Rutledge, one of the most blatant displays of pre-coital jousting in a mainstream Hollywood movie at that time. The irony, for a movie that was ahead of its time, is that it was nearly two years late getting out to the public, as it was pulled and reshot after initial screenings, increasing Bacall's role, among other changes. The result was a mystery that remained mysterious, but also a cutting-edge movie with a razor-sharp sexual edge. And it turned out that this mattered a lot more than finding out who killed Owen Taylor. -- Bruce Eder
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