

In this story, Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is first hired by General Sternwood to take care of the gambling debts of the General's youngest daughter, Carmen, which she owes to a local bookmaker. Eight more Chandler-novels as well as short stories with Marlowe as hero were about to follow.
#The big sleep no more movie#
More precisely, Raymond Chandler's novel of the same name from the year 1939 was picturized, introducing the character of private detective Philip Marlowe - played in the movie by Humphrey Bogart.

The Big Sleep, like many of its genre competitors - I'm using the term 'genre' in this context even though film historians and -scientists disagree about this, is based on one of the so-called hard-boiled novels of the 1930s. Let's first look at the film's story, though. Not many people know, though, that the movie already had a moved past behind it before finally getting its theatrical release on August 31st, 1946, which lead to two final cuts existing for this movie. Main acts are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, the dream couple at the time, additionally Howard Hanks on the directing chair, so basically the perfect combination for a box office hit. The guy has the last word, however.Howard Hawk's The Big Sleep is probably one of the most famous representants of those American movies that are generally summarized as Film Noir and, in my personal opinion, are surely among the most interesting of Hollywood's productions. When his wife complains, he “socked her in the choppers.” This low-life has his come-uppance when one of his girlfriends shoves him in the river, drowning him. The song tells the dark story of a two-timing guy who “indulged in fancy spending” on the ponies, girls, gin, roses, rings, cars, and furs. Lauren Bacall sings And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine from The Big Sleep If, indeed, the Williams Brothers are the group that sings with Lauren Bacall, their performance in the film is uncredited. Some later accounts alleged that the Lauren Bacall’s singing in The Big Sleep was done by a very young Andy Williams, dubbing for Bacall, but studio memos and production reports make it clear that the singing voice heard in the film is Bacall’s own. (The most famous member of the brothers was Andy Williams, who later went on to have a solo singing career and recorded well into the 1970s.) In 1943,the group was under contract with the MGM studio and appeared in such films as Janie (1944), Kansas City Kitty (1944), Ladies’ Man (1947), and Something in the Wind (1947).They also appeared with Bing Crosby on the hit record Swinging On A Star (1944). I will say that the information is possibly correct because The Williams Brothers were a singing quartet who formed in the mid-1930s and were in Hollywood at the time that The Big Sleep was filmed.

I have not been able to verify whether this information is correct or not. In the film, the song is played by a band and casually sung by Vivian Rutledge (Lauren Bacall) at a gambling casino while observed by private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart).Some sources state that Bacall (who, incidentally, does her own singing) is accompanied by a group known as The Williams Brothers. The song was also performed in part by Lauren Bacall in the 1946 movie The Big Sleep.
