> The other evening, my wife and I went to the movie
theatre at
> Chicago's Art Institute to see a previously
unreleased version of
> Howard Hawks's film adaptation of *The Big Sleep*.
Very interesting.
[SNIP]
> Aside from that cut, most of the changes did, in
fact, improve the
> film. The original version was very good. The final
version (the one
> most of you are probably familiar with) was better.
The metamorphosis
> between the two versions is very
interesting.
Jim, you might be interested in the little booklet on The Big
Sleep in
the BFI 'film classics' series:
David Thomson, _The Big Sleep_ (BFI: London, 1997). The book
discusses
Chandler's Marlowe and Hawkes's Marlowe, as well as the
shooting,
editing and re-shooting of the film, and offers in-depth
analysis of the
film's characterisation and plot--all in 73 pages!
Other titles in the series that are likely to be of interest
to
rara-avians include _The Big Heat_, _Gun Crazy_, _In A Lonely
Place_ and
_Double Indemnity_.
ED
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