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Title: Pure quality
Review: 4.75 starsBogie and Bacall at their best. You can see the love in her eyes everytime she looks at him (check her out when the scene's focus is elsewhere: she's always gazing with unrestrained awe at her guy...except when she's looking off-camera at Huston for direction, oops! Amazed they didn't cut that). That kind of connection mated with this kind of script creates fireworks. Not quite as great as the Falcon or Indemnity, this is nonetheless easily one of the top ten films noir.Beautifully shot, with a fabulous Steiner score, and Chandler dialogue shaped for the screen by Faulkner (!!??!! How often do you see names like that together in Hollyweird?), Sleep is a true classic in every way.It may be a tad too long, but not by much.Bogie was rarely better, and the jokes about his height seem to make him work even harder to be the tough guy that he truly was. Nobody today comes near his presence.Old school movies don't get much better than this.
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