Review of The Big Sleep (1946) by Pauline Kael for The New Yorker — 04 Mar 1968
A very good movie (1946), and by far the best Raymond Chandler adaptation, but it isn’t one of Howard Hawks’s most refined efforts—it lacks his clarity of line, his balance, his sense of a free spirit at play within a carefully set structure.
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This review of The Big Sleep (1946) was written by Pauline Kael and published by The New Yorker on 04 Mar 1968.
The Big Sleep has generally received very positive reviews.
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