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The Big Sleep

on BBC Two England

A Hollywood classic to round off a perfect television Christmas, starring Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall
When private eye
Philip Marlowe is summoned to the home of a bedridden millionaire, his visit leads him into a labyrinth of blackmail, drugs and murder.
Director Howard Hawks
TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 ● FILMS: pages 4 1 -67

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Bogart
Unknown:
Lauren Bacall
Unknown:
Philip Marlowe
Director:
Howard Hawks
Philip Marlowe:
Humphrey Bogart
Vivian:
Lauren Bacall
Eddie Mars:
John Ridgely
Carmen:
Martha Vickers

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