The other night Becky and I watched this second version of The Big Sleep on the Criterion Channel and enjoyed it as the entertaining 1970s period piece that it certainly was.
Now of course the 1948 Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall was the better film but the Robert Mitchem movie was a lot of fun in it's own 70's way. We had originally seen it when it was first released in 1978 and not since then. It was what was then called a neo-noir film and the setting was changed to 1970's London and of course was much more explicit than the 1948 film with the portrayal of homosexuality, pornography and nudity that was only hinted at in the earlier film. The film had an all star cast but that didn't keep it from getting panned by the critics at the time.
I read the original Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep back in August 1987. I also read his The Last Goodbye that summer.
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