The Big Sleep (2) - Humphrey Bogart / Lauren Bacall - Movie Poster Framed Picture 12"x16"

The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, and the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939.

The movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge in a story about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results."

In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and added it to the National Film Registry.