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The "Big Sleep" (BFI Film Classics)

by David Thomson (Author)

Synopsis

Thi stext shows how The Big Sleep signalled a change in the nature of Hollywood cinema, as the director Howard Hawks shot extra scenes, fun scenes, to replace the ones in which the murders are explained, and in so doing left the plot unresolved.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Published: 01 Feb 1997

ISBN 10: 0851706320
ISBN 13: 9780851706320

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Superb . . . by the world's greatest film critic. -- The Guardian
Author Bio
David Thomson, renowned as one of the great living authorities on the movies, is the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its fifth edition. His books include a biography of Nicole Kidman, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood and Have You Seen . . . ? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. Born in London in 1941, he now lives in San Francisco.