The Big Sleep (Winner, 1977)

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Director Winner switched the setting of Chandler's classic Marlowe mystery from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London, perhaps to avoid comparison with its forerunner. The 1946 Bogart/Bacall masterpiece is a tough act to follow, but this version is interesting in its own right for Mitchum's take on the fabled private, Philip Marlowe who finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter. A whole seedy world of crime is revealed beneath London's leafy suburbs.

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Article - "Robert Mitchum - Boxer, Hobo, Actor" by Sue Levan
Thursday 17th May 2007

Robert Mitchum was famously dismissive of his own profession. Indeed the title of his 1975 biography by Mike Tomkies was 'It Sure Beats Working’ which demonstrates the amused detachment with which Mitchum viewed acting. He felt he was one lucky guy to have dropped in...  View article in full

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