The Big Sleep (1978)

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Synopsis

Raymond Chandler's famed private eye, Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum), is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Smallwood (James Stewart), an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed over the antics of his two daughters, Charlotte (Sarah Miles) and Camilla (Candy Clark). Marlowe travels the seedy underworld of crime beneath old London, through a dangerous web of murder and suicide and straight into the sinister world of gangster, Eddie Mars (Oliver Reed).

Movie info:

Release:

1978

Running Time:

99 min

Certificate:

Not yet rated

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Genre:

• Thriller

Cast:

• Oliver Reed as Eddie Mars
• Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe
• Joan Collins as Agnes Lozelle
• James Stewart as General Sternwood

Director:

• Michael Winner

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