The Big Sleep (1946)

"Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!"

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made a dynamite couple, onscreen and off. Their second and best collaboration was The Big Sleep (1946), a classy adaptation of Raymond Chandler's iconic detective novel.
Phillip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) meets with General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), a wealthy aristocrat with two wayward daughters, Vivian (Lauren Bacall) and Carmen (Martha Vickers). Sternwood asks Marlowe to help resolve Carmen's gambling debts, but Marlowe suspects something else is going on. Vivian intercedes, steering Marlowe ...