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The Big Sleep
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Baltake, Joe. In: The Sacramento Bee (USA). (9/19/1997. NP)
Ferreira, Manuel Cintra. In: Expresso, Cartaz (Portugal). (28.11.1998. WNP)

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Brackett, Leigh. "From 'The Big Sleep to 'The Long Goodbye and more or less how we got there." Take One Vol. (4, No. 1, 1974), Pg. 26-28
Hogue, Peter. "Hawks, Chandler and 'The Big Sleep'." Movietone News No. (57, 1978), Pg. 12-16

Original Literary Source
Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. Alfred A. Knopf 277pp (New York), 1939

Screenplay/teleplay
Laurence Olivier, Reginald Beck, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett. "Film Scripts One/Henry V/A Streetcar Named Desire/The Big Sleep". Irvington Publishers (New York), 1989, 0829022759

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