The Big Sleep

And over at least Vincent Price's exterior shot is the Ennis House in LA, which was built in 1925.

And it's used in a number of films, including The Big Sleep, Blade Runner, Rush Hour, and Mulholland Drive.

And then the interior is largely shown in sound stages.

And I feel like you can tell.

yeah.

But yeah, Julianne Moore is fantastic This is one of her like first big movies and it's kind of her breakthrough in a way I think maybe not fully a breakthrough but one of them and I also would argue that I think she gets a the big Lebowski because of this movie, because it's a very simple, uh, so for, you know, without getting too deep into the plot, Cassidy spell is very much a riff on, uh, Raymond Chandler's, uh, the big sleep.

And that's exactly what the big Lebowski is doing.

It's a riff on the big, uh, the big sleep, uh, So I feel like the casting person must have seen Caterly Spell and thought, oh, she already has like this knowledge of this, what we're trying to do here and how to make it slightly comedic.

And she's even a similar role in that she's sort of a femme fatale, even though in The Big Lebowski, that's a different kind of thing.

But she's, you know, the love interest of the protagonist.

So I got to do...

One of the articles is basically someone who works for City Hall anonymously has sent in a letter to the editor saying, hey, City Hall in LA is under control of Migo, essentially, right? And then you get another...

It's very different from, I think, the much more appealing work that was done by Dick Powell and Humphrey Bogart in playing the role of Marlowe and bringing that to the big screen.

And when people take a look at the 40s films, invariably, it'll either be The Big Sleep or...

Murder, My Sweet, that will end up the number one and then the other number two.

This one will definitely always be number three of the four films that was made.

but not included in either the film or the radio version.

I think that Lady and the Like is right up there in that same echelon of brilliant, hard-boiled detective writing that we associate with Chandler, just as...

Farewell, My Lovely, and The Big Sleeper.

So I think the film version, just the way it was adapted, didn't quite serve well.

Yep.

If you don't know a thing about the period during which the movie The Big Sleep was shot, Marlowe's references to red points won't mean a thing to you.

Even though you know that what a red thing is and what a point is.

Right.

And think about the size and weight of the cars that they were driving

during wartime.

If you watch movies, I think this is true in The Big Sleep as well, you will see ration stickers on the windshield of cars.

Yep.

Brian, of course, was watching the movies with us, and he sent in a review.

He was able to watch The Big Sleep.

because it was a little delayed for him getting it.

He found it difficult to follow.

This is the last episode show that we did on The Big Sleep.

I did appreciate the quality of the acting and its connections to the period of time.

He works in economics professionally and was interested to check out Marlowe's fee of $25 per day.

Which is – it's such an homage to those 70s.

It's not just The Big Sleep, but it's like mostly the 70s noir.

But you mentioned in

your book The Big Sleep –

It frustrates me the more.

That's one that I've kind of gone to.