Al borde del abismo

Título original: The Big Sleep

1946
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1h 54min

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Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Al borde del abismo (1946)

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Film Noir Hard-boiled Detective Crime Mystery Thriller

Detective privado Philip Marlowe es contratado por una familia rica. Antes de que el caso complejo se acabó, el ha visto el asesinato, el chantaje y lo que puede ser amor.Detective privado Philip Marlowe es contratado por una familia rica. Antes de que el caso complejo se acabó, el ha visto el asesinato, el chantaje y lo que puede ser amor.Detective privado Philip Marlowe es contratado por una familia rica. Antes de que el caso complejo se acabó, el ha visto el asesinato, el chantaje y lo que puede ser amor.

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Premios
- 2 premios ganados en total

Trivia
Due to Humphrey Bogart's affair with co-star Lauren Bacall, his marital problems escalated during filming, and his drinking often resulted in his being unable to work. Three months after the film was finished, Bacall and Bogart were married.

Errores
When Vivian is telling Marlowe the cover story for Carmen for the night before, her mouth does not match what she's saying. This mismatch is because the movie was re-edited after Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall became a popular team; Tener y no tener (1944) which brought them to stardom was released after Al borde del abismo (1946) was filmed but before it was released. Scenes were re-shot, some new scenes were added and others dropped. The sequence was also changed to accommodate some of the new edits. The audio/visual mismatch is because the scene was kept but minor dialog had to be changed to make the re-sequencing track properly.

Citas
Philip Marlowe: She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.

Créditos curiosos
During the opening credits, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall are seen in silhouette, placing cigarettes in an ashtray. At the end, two cigarettes are in an ashtray.

Versiones alternativas
It was filmed in 1944 but not released until two years later. Some prints derive from a slightly different early preview version with alternate footage.

Conexiones
Edited into La trampa del oro (1965)

Bandas sonoras
And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
(uncredited)
Music by Stan Kenton and Charles Lawrence
Lyrics by Joe Greene
Sung by Lauren Bacall and The Williams Brothers
[A band accompanies Vivian singing the song at the casino]

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9/10

"Over Here, Canino"

The second of the Bogey and Bacall pairings has Humphrey Bogart playing his second pulp fiction detective for the screen. Previously he had done Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and now he's Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. He's at the top of his game in both.

Bogey's been hired by Philip Waldron to get rid of a blackmailer that's got something on one of his daughters, the amoral and disturbed Martha Vickers. The older daughter Lauren Bacall intrigues Bogey a bit more when she tries to pry into exactly what Bogart is doing for her father. Seems as though a family chauffeur has gone missing a while back and the family is concerned on a number of levels.

The plot glides into the question of the missing chauffeur and Bogart meets all kinds of interesting characters before all the mysteries are solved.

The Big Sleep proved that the teaming on screen of Bogey and Bacall was no flash in the pan success that they had in Two Have and Have Not. They are surrounded with a great cast of players. Dorothy Malone got her first notice on film as a bookstore proprietor. Elisha Cook essays one of his typical roles as a luckless fall guy. John Ridgely is properly menacing as gambler Eddie Mars.

But my favorite in this film has always been Bob Steele as the vicious killer Canino who Ridgely has on retainer. Why Bob Steele wasted his time with two bit grade C westerns when he was doing work like this is beyond me. My favorite scene in The Big Sleep has always been when Bogey blasts Steele after Bacall has diverted his attention. When you hear Bogart utter those words, "over here, Canino" he was never more chilling or menacing on the screen before or after.

Set comfortably within it's time in the Forties, The Big Sleep still packs quite a wallop for today's audience. May you never have Humphrey Bogart looking to nail you for some misdeed.