Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exit Hamlet Harlow to sleep! Perchance to dream of an undefeated team--ay, there's the rub. But come the ides of November, and 'ere long even the Bulldog which barks at Yale, Sirrah, may be muzzled by the Crimson gale...
...York's serious-minded critics had as much to say about the success of movies as they do about legitimate stage attempts, "The Big Sleep" would already be mouldering in its grave. Crowther and company slashed at it for "incoherence" as they gave it thumbs down with a typical sneer. What they failed to comprehend was that this latest Bogart-Bacall opus thrills while it confuses and is likely to leave its audiences just as interested as bewildered...
Even without motivation, however, the characters and events of "The Big Sleep" are fascinating. Bogart outwitting a thug in his own suave, self-assured manner is a good scene even when you are in the dark about what either one of them wants. And inter-play between Bogart and Bacall has not even yet lost the sheen of "To Have and Have...
...fancy for films of violence in the "Double Indemnity" or "Postman Rings Twice" mode may or may not be a passing one; while it lasts, at least, "The Big Sleep" should hold its own among the rest --clarity and the critics notwithstanding...
...Again. To some, the parallel between last week and 1919-when the fall of commodity prices heralded the 1920 "snap" depression-was so clear that one U.S. Department of Commerce expert remarked: "If a modern Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in 1919 . . . and awakened in 1946, he would feel very much at home...