Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).

Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

The film is loosely based on Raymond Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep.

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

Films such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are considered classics and helped launch the careers of legendary actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.

The Big Sleep, like most of Chandler's novels, was written by what he called cannibalizing previously written short stories.

In the case of the Big Sleep the two main stories that formed the core of the novel were Killer in the Rain published in 1935 and The Curtain published in 1936.

As might be expected, all this cannibalizing — especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by literally cutting and pasting paper — sometimes resulted in a plot that had a few loose ends ; in the case of the Big Sleep there is the famous story of who killed the chauffer.

" In the Big Sleep Chandler expands this description of the room and uses this new detail ( e. g., the contrast of white and " bled out ", the coming rain ) to foreshadow the fact that Mrs. Regan ( who was Mrs. O ' Mara in the original story ) is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rain storm will bring more deaths: " The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead.

* The Big Sleep, a 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart

* The Big Sleep, a 1978 film starring Robert Mitchum

* The Coen brothers ' film The Big Lebowski is inspired by the character Philip Marlowe and the style and plot elements of Chandler's novels such as The Big Sleep.

* The Big Sleep, a stage adaptation by Alvin Rakoff and John D. Rakoff, premièred in October 2011 at The Mill at Sonning, Berkshire, UK.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

* Big Town Czar ( 1939 )

Other popular Wyler films include Funny Girl ( 1968 ), How to Steal a Million ( 1966 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), The Letter ( 1940 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), and Hell's Heroes ( 1930 ).

He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known Big Bands.

Today, Chandler's creation, private eye Philip Marlowe — who appears, for example, in his novels The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) and Farewell, My Lovely ( 1940 ) — has achieved cult status and has also been made the topic of literary seminars at universities round the world, whereas on first publication Chandler's novels were seen as little more than cheap entertainment for the uneducated masses.

Shortly after the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, starting with his first ( small ) billed performance in the wartime morale booster The Big Blockade, seen in March 1940.

* Raymond Chandler in his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), lets his private eye Philip Marlowe describe and comment on " a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.

From the 1920s to the 1930s, the South Bend company had originated many style and engineering milestones, including the Light Four, Light Six, Special Six, Big Six models, the record-breaking Commander and President, followed by the 1939 Champion.

Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep published in 1939.

* The Big Sleep ( 1939 )

The Riders would next win the Big Four and Eastern title in 1939, but lose to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 8 – 7 in the Grey Cup game, held in Ottawa.

He settled in Chicago in 1939, and began teaming with Big Bill Broonzy in clubs soon afterward.

On January 4, 1971, Wallace wed the former Cornelia Ellis Snively ( 1939 – 2009 ), a niece of former Alabama Governor Jim Folsom, known as " Big Jim ".

Several of the tenets of what was to become AA's Twelve Traditions were first expressed in the Foreword to the First Edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939.

As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe — immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation ( 1946 ) of the novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 )— admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to fit into the extensive set of rules and regulations for police detectives:

Later in 1939, the group performed a Big Apple sequence for the movie Keep Punching, which has been recreated by Lindy hop performance groups since the 1990s.

Although written after The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), Farewell, My Lovely was the first Marlowe story to be filmed.

* Keep Punching ( 1939 )-featuring Frankie Manning in the Big Apple sequence

The roles are Mrs. Potter in The Cocoanuts ( 1929 ), Mrs. Rittenhouse in Animal Crackers ( 1930 ), Mrs. Gloria Teasdale in Duck Soup ( 1933 ), Mrs. Claypool in A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ), Emily Upjohn in A Day at the Races ( 1937 ), Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury in At the Circus ( 1939 ), and Martha Phelps in The Big Store ( 1941 ).

Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), They Were Expendable ( 1945 ), Joan of Arc ( 1948 ), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role.

However, others point out that three of the Big Four were effectively bankrupt before the onset of war in 1939 and were only saved from the ignominy of actually declaring bankruptcy by the guaranteed income provided by the wartime government and the temporary surge in rail traffic caused by the restrictions on other forms of transport during and immediately after the war.