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The Big Sleep (1945) (I happened to see the 1945 version, which was unmarked on the duo-sided DVD. The released version is 1946, a film with some acting changes, but no plot changes)
8/10
Humphrey Bogart, as Phillip Marlowe private detective, runs around figuring out who's doing what to who. Also stars Lauren Bacall.
It's fun and fast paced, but the plot is thoroughly incoherent. The film keeps piling up the somebodies who are doing something to somebody. Even at the end, it won't make a lick of sense. It's interesting that the film always only follows Bogart throughout the film, so everything is revealed to the audience in realtime from Bogart's perspective. This method works fantastically.
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