num_pages: 73
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Big Sleep
titlecomplete: The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics)
genres: Criticism, Film, Nonfiction, Crime
ratings_count: 120
series: BFI Film Classics
publisher: British Film Institute