11 Classic Movies to See Before You Die
8. The Big Sleep
And no list would be complete without at leas the smallest of nods to the detective genre-something about the black and white, and the dames and the demons and the detectives, meant that the forties and fifties produced some of the finest work the genre ever saw. Philip Marlowe (played by Humphrey Bogart) finds himself caught up in a complex murder case-which might lead to something more with an electric Lauren Bacall. So cool and assured you’ll basically want to go to bed with this movie.