Video: 'The Big Sleep' trailer

(Friday, August 23, 1946, doors scheduled to open at 9:00 a.m. EDT) — The Big Sleep, a film noir about a private eye who investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer, opened this morning at 1579 Broadway, at the northwest corner of 47th Street and Broadway in Times Square, New York City.

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Directed by Howard Hawks, the film starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.