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Sleep">The Big Sleep</a></i><br />1939 novel<br />by <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data">Jerry Bick <br /><a href="/wiki/Lew_Grade" title="Lew Grade">Lew Grade</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Elliott_Kastner" title="Elliott Kastner">Elliott Kastner</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Williams_(producer)" title="Bernard Williams (producer)">Bernard Williams</a><br />Michael Winner</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mitchum" title="Robert Mitchum">Robert Mitchum</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Miles" title="Sarah Miles">Sarah Miles</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Richard_Boone" title="Richard Boone">Richard Boone</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Candy_Clark" title="Candy Clark">Candy Clark</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Edward_Fox_(actor)" title="Edward Fox (actor)">Edward Fox</a><br /><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Colin_Blakely" title="Colin Blakely">Colin Blakely</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Narrated by</th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Mitchum</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Paynter" title="Robert Paynter">Robert Paynter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Wilson_(film_editor)" title="Frederick Wilson (film editor)">Frederick Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Fielding" title="Jerry Fielding">Jerry Fielding</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/wiki/ITC_Entertainment" title="ITC Entertainment">ITC Entertainment</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>13 March 1978<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1978-03-13</span>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">99 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Countries</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom<br />United States<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Big Sleep</b></i> is a 1978 <a href="/wiki/Neo-noir" title="Neo-noir">neo-noir film</a>, the second film version of <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Chandler" title="Raymond Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Sleep" title="The Big Sleep">1939 novel of the same name</a>. The picture was directed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Winner" title="Michael Winner">Michael Winner</a> and stars <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mitchum" title="Robert Mitchum">Robert Mitchum</a> in his second film portrayal of the detective <a href="/wiki/Philip_Marlowe" title="Philip Marlowe">Philip Marlowe</a> (following <a href="/wiki/Farewell,_My_Lovely_(1975_film)" title="Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film)"><i>Farewell, My Lovely</i></a> three years earlier). The cast includes <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Miles" title="Sarah Miles">Sarah Miles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Candy_Clark" title="Candy Clark">Candy Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Reed" title="Oliver Reed">Oliver Reed</a>, and features <a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> as General Sternwood.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The story's setting was changed from 1940s <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> to 1970s <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. The film contains material more explicit than what could only be hinted at in the <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Sleep_(1946_film)" title="The Big Sleep (1946 film)">1946 version</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nudity" title="Nudity">nudity</a>. Mitchum was age 60 at the time of filming, far older than Chandler's 33-year-old Marlowe (or the 1946 film's 38-year-old Marlowe, played by <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart" title="Humphrey Bogart">Humphrey Bogart</a>, who was 44 at the time). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Sleep_(1978_film)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1970s England, private detective <a href="/wiki/Philip_Marlowe" title="Philip Marlowe">Philip Marlowe</a> is asked to the stately home of General Sternwood, who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him. While at the mansion, he meets the general's spoiled and inquisitive daughter, Charlotte, and wild younger daughter, Camilla. </p><p>Marlowe's investigation of the <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexual</a> <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornographer</a>, Arthur Geiger, leads him to Agnes Lozelle, an employee of Geiger, and to Joe Brody, a man with whom Agnes has become enamored. He also discovers Camilla at the scene of Geiger's murder, where she has posed for nude photographs, and safely takes her home to a grateful Charlotte. </p><p>Returning to the crime scene, Marlowe is interrupted by gambler Eddie Mars, who owns the house where Geiger's body was found. Mars's wife, Mona, has not been seen in a while, and may have run off with Rusty Regan, Charlotte's missing husband. Due to Charlotte Regan's gambling debts, Mars appears to have a hold over Charlotte as well. </p><p>Camilla tries to get her pictures back from Brody, who is now in possession of them. Marlowe intervenes, but Brody is shot and killed by an unknown killer. </p><p>A man named Harry Jones comes to Marlowe with a proposition. He is working with Agnes now, and she is willing to sell information regarding Mrs. Mars's whereabouts. However, on the night when Marlowe shows up for their meeting, Harry is poisoned by Lash Canino, a hit man working for Eddie Mars. </p><p>Marlowe pays Agnes for the address. He tracks down Canino at a remote garage, where he is overpowered and taken prisoner. Mars's supposedly missing wife, Mona, is there as well. At a moment when Canino is out, Marlowe persuades her to set him free. In a shootout, he kills Canino. </p><p>Camilla appears to be grateful to Marlowe, and asks him to teach her how to use the gun, so that she can protect herself. He takes her to some woods, and sets up an empty can on the ruins of a Roman castle for her to use as a target. She points the gun at him and pulls the trigger repeatedly, but Marlowe was prepared for this, and had given her a gun loaded with blanks. She becomes hysterical at the ruse, and he takes her home. It turns out that the emotionally disturbed Camilla had murdered her sister's husband, Rusty, and that Charlotte had covered everything up with Eddie Mars's help. </p><p>After confronting Charlotte with the facts, Marlowe tells her to have Camilla hospitalized. He drives out of the Sternwood residence the same way he came in, hoping that the gravely ill general will never know the complete truth. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Sleep_(1978_film)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mitchum" title="Robert Mitchum">Robert Mitchum</a> as <a href="/wiki/Philip_Marlowe" title="Philip Marlowe">Philip Marlowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Miles" title="Sarah Miles">Sarah Miles</a> as Charlotte Sternwood Regan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Boone" title="Richard Boone">Richard Boone</a> as Lash Canino</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candy_Clark" title="Candy Clark">Candy Clark</a> as Camilla Sternwood</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a> as Agnes Lozelle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Fox_(actor)" title="Edward Fox (actor)">Edward Fox</a> as Joe Brody</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mills" title="John Mills">John Mills</a> as Inspector Jim Carson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> as General Sternwood</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Reed" title="Oliver Reed">Oliver Reed</a> as Eddie Mars</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Andrews" title="Harry Andrews">Harry Andrews</a> as Norris the butler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Blakely" title="Colin Blakely">Colin Blakely</a> as Harry Jones</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Todd" title="Richard Todd">Richard Todd</a> as Commander Barker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Quick" title="Diana Quick">Diana Quick</a> as Mona Grant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Donald" title="James Donald">James Donald</a> as Inspector Gregory</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Justin" title="John Justin">John Justin</a> as Arthur Geiger</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Fisher_Turner" title="Simon Fisher Turner">Simon Fisher Turner</a> as Karl Lundgren</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Potter_(actor)" title="Martin Potter (actor)">Martin Potter</a> as Owen Taylor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Sleep_(1978_film)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film was originally developed for <a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a>, for when that studio bought the <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Pictures" title="Warner Bros. Pictures">Warner Bros.</a> library, they obtained the remake rights.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It went to <a href="/wiki/The_Rank_Organisation" title="The Rank Organisation">The Rank Organisation</a> before eventually finding finance via <a href="/wiki/Lew_Grade" title="Lew Grade">Lew Grade</a>. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Winner" title="Michael Winner">Michael Winner</a> said that an American was meant to adapt it, but he did not agree with changing the locale to Britain, so Winner did it first. "I've changed the storyline far less than in the Hawks film," said Winner.<sup id="cite_ref-guard_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guard-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Diana Quick performs the song "<a href="/wiki/Won%27t_Somebody_Dance_with_Me" title="Won't Somebody Dance with Me">Won't Somebody Dance with Me</a>", a ballad composed by <a href="/wiki/Lynsey_de_Paul" title="Lynsey de Paul">Lynsey de Paul</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Sleep_(1978_film)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times" title="Chicago Sun-Times">Chicago Sun-Times</a></i> gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, and wrote that "despite all the great costumes and sets and London locations they’re given to work with, the actors don’t seem engaged".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Janet_Maslin" title="Janet Maslin">Janet Maslin</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> described the film as "senselessly gaudy" and "overloaded with big names, and in this case the net effect of an all-star cast is to make an already confusing mystery even harder to follow".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gene_Siskel" title="Gene Siskel">Gene Siskel</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> gave the film 1.5 stars out of 4, and wrote, "All of the zigs and zags of the original story are in the remake; what's missing is the enthusiasm. Talented actors such as Edward Fox and Oliver Reed sleepwalk through their parts."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Thomas_(film_critic)" title="Kevin Thomas (film critic)">Kevin Thomas</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> panned the film as "a flat, routine procedural detective mystery utterly devoid of any film noir atmosphere".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Arthur D. Murphy of <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i> wrote, "The production is handsome, but in the updating and relocation a lot has been lost."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gary Arnold of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> wrote, "Everything is out of whack in this transposition of Chandler's material. The actors seem to be going through the motions, but they look wrong, sound wrong and inhabit the wrong settings."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>John Pym of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin" title="The Monthly Film Bulletin">The Monthly Film Bulletin</a></i> wrote that the location and time change had "destroyed the crucial geographical and temporal context of Chandler's novel; almost every aspect of the narrative now seems ludicrously out of place". 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Studios">Shout Factory</a>, under license from <a href="/wiki/ITV_Studios" title="ITV Studios">ITV Studios</a> (successor in interest to ITC Entertainment and Carlton Media), 23 September 2014, in a Region 1 wide-screen format.</li></ul> <p><i>The Big Sleep</i> was released on <a href="/wiki/Blu-ray" title="Blu-ray">Blu-ray</a> by Shout Factory 20 February 2018, as part of a two-movie package, with the remake of <i><a href="/wiki/Farewell,_My_Lovely_(1975_film)" title="Farewell, My Lovely (1975 film)">Farewell, My Lovely</a></i>. 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American Film Institute<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=AFI+Catalog&rft.atitle=The+Big+Sleep&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.afi.com%2FCatalog%2FMovieDetails%2F56208&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Big+Sleep+%281978+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077234/"><i>The Big Sleep</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMills,_Bart1977" class="citation news cs1">Mills, Bart (20 November 1977). "<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Big Sleep's' reawakening is Winner's latest film dream". <i>Chicago Tribune</i>. p. e22.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Tribune&rft.atitle=%27Big+Sleep%27s%27+reawakening+is+Winner%27s+latest+film+dream&rft.pages=e22&rft.date=1977-11-20&rft.au=Mills%2C+Bart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Big+Sleep+%281978+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-guard-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-guard_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Winner closes eye deal". <i>The Guardian</i>. London. 2 July 1977. p. 10.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Winner+closes+eye+deal&rft.pages=10&rft.date=1977-07-02&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Big+Sleep+%281978+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077234/soundtrack"><i>The Big Sleep</i>—Soundtrack</a> at IMDb</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Frank's 500: The Thriller Film Guide</i> by Alan Frank, Batsford Publishing, 1997, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0713427288" title="Special:BookSources/978-0713427288">978-0713427288</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEbert1978" class="citation web cs1">Ebert, Roger (24 March 1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-big-sleep-1978">"The Big Sleep"</a>. <a href="/wiki/RogerEbert.com" title="RogerEbert.com">RogerEbert.com</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 December</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Big+Sleep&rft.pub=RogerEbert.com&rft.date=1978-03-24&rft.aulast=Ebert&rft.aufirst=Roger&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerebert.com%2Freviews%2Fthe-big-sleep-1978&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Big+Sleep+%281978+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Maslin, Janet (15 March 1978). "Film: Winner's Version of 'Big Sleep'". <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. C19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Siskel, Gene (28 March 1978). "'The Big Sleep' is one tired movie". <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i>. Section 2, p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas, Kevin (29 March 1978). "'Big Sleep' Aptly Named". <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>. Part IV, p. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murphy, Arthur D. (15 March 1978). "Film Reviews: The Big sleep". <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i>. 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Arnold, Gary (23 March 1978). "'The Big Sleep,' the Second Time Around". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. B17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPym1978" class="citation journal cs1">Pym, John (September 1978). "The Big Sleep". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin" title="The Monthly Film Bulletin">The Monthly Film Bulletin</a></i>. <b>45</b> (536): 172.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Monthly+Film+Bulletin&rft.atitle=The+Big+Sleep&rft.volume=45&rft.issue=536&rft.pages=172&rft.date=1978-09&rft.aulast=Pym&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Big+Sleep+%281978+film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Big_Sleep_(1978_film)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Tibbetts, John C., and James M. 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