The big sleep

Question 1

The Big sleep presentation

Answer 1

The Big Sleep , 1946, film noir, Howard Hawks
Based on The Big Sleep 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler
Screenplay by William Faulkner (Nobel Prize 1949)

Question 2

What movie created a new detective?

Answer 2

The Maltese Falcon
A film by John Huston (1941

Question 3

Dark passage

Answer 3

Dark passage (1947) by Delmer Daves

→ Dark passage (Road Block scene)

→ Books, bookstores and librarians

Question 4

Dark passage book scen e

Answer 4

-Is there something I can do for you?
- Would you do me a small favor?
- It depends on the favor.
- You know Geiger’s bookstore?
- I think I may have passed it.
- You know Geiger by sight?
- What’s he look like?
- Wouldn’t it be easier to go and ask to see him?
-I’ve already done that. Know anything about rare books?
- You could try me.
- Do you have a Ben Hur,…with a duplicated line on page 116?Or a Chevalier Audubon, 1840?
- Nobody would. There isn’t one.

-The girl in Geiger’s bookstore didn’t know that.
- I see. You begin to interest me vaguely.
- I’m a private dick on a case.Perhaps I’m asking too much…although it doesn’t seem too much to me.
- Geiger’s in his early forties……medium height……fattish……soft all over, Charlie Chan mustache……well-dressed……wears a black hat……affects a knowledge of antiques and hasn’t any…..and I think his left eye is glass.
- You’d make a good cop.
- Thanks.
- Going to wait for him to come out?
- They don’t close for another hour or so. And it’s raining pretty hard.

• I got my car and…That’s right, it is, isn’t it? It just happens I got a bottle of pretty good rye in my pocket. I’d a lot rather get wet in here.
• Well! Looks like we’re closed for the rest of the afternoon.
• Tell me more about this business.
• There isn’t much to tell.
• What’s the matter?
• I’m just wondering if you have to…
• Not necessarily.
• Little things like that make an…
• Hello!