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  • The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics)

    (By David Thomson)

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    Author David Thomson
    “Book Descriptions: This text shows how The Big Sleep signalled a change in the nature of Hollywood cinema, as the director Howard Hawks shot extra scenes, "fun" scenes, to replace the ones in which the murders are explained, and in so doing left the plot unresolved.”

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