Re the Michael Winner The Big Sleep: granted the British
location is dumb, the film does have a few good points. The
casting is pretty good. James Stewart as Gen. Sternwood.
Harry Andrews as the Sternwood butler. And Richard Boone is
definitely entertaining as the killer Canino with a (real?)
broken ankle. And Chandler's ending is restored, more on
less, with Mitchum doing a voice-over of the "What did it
matter where you lay once you were dead?" paragraph, arguably
the finest lines that Chandler ever wrote. As I recall,
Winner actually used quite a lot of the original
dialogue.
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