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The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir[3][4] directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 novel of the same name. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the “process of a criminal investigation, not its results.”[5] William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay.
In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and added it to the National Film Registry.
114 min Crime, Drama, Film-Noir 23 August 1946 (USA)
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (based upon the novel by)
The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. ...
