Bogie and Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’ on HBO Max !Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, Mystery, National Film Registry, SVOD 05/04/202205/04/2022 Sean Axmaker Howard Hawks directs the great 1946 adaptation of the Raymond Chandler classic, stirring up the romantic heat in the hardboiled mystery set in the corruption of the Los Angeles underworld.