The Big Sleep (1979)

Directors

Michael Winner

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Richard Boone, Joan Collins, John Mills, Oliver Reed, James Stewart, Edward Fox, Martin Potter, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Richard Todd, Diana Quick, John Justin, James Donald, Simon Fisher-Turner, David Savile, Tom Laughlin

The story

In 1970s England, private detective Philip Marlowe is asked to the stately home of General Sternwood, who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him. While at the mansion, he meets the general's spoiled and inquisitive daughter, Charlotte, and wild younger daughter, Camilla. Marlowe's investigation of the homosexual pornographer, Arthur Geiger, leads him to Agnes Lozelle, an employee of Geiger, and to Joe Brody, a man with whom Agnes has become enamored.

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