'The Big Sleep' Film By Howard Hawkes, Review

Howard Hawke's latest film is an enthralling mix of intrigue, deception, corruption and self-interest. TBS is populated with seedy and immoral characters who exist within a black world represented through the shadowy confines of black and white that film noir is so suitable to represent. The strengths of TBS is in its fantastic dialogue which Hakes has taken from the legendary minds of chandler and contributions by William Faulkner. Chandlers classic detective story, which although …

…significant is the Sternwood estate complete with a hothouse overrun by orchids; Geiger's house which is at the center of the murder and mystery from the outset is made sinister and unsavoury through the use of sound track in the way of edgy music and souneffects, gunshots and screaming. This is further enhanced by the film noir atmosphere which depicts Marlowe darting in a trenchcoat from his parked car on a dark and rainy night.