The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler's famed private eye, Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum), is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Smallwood (James Stewart), an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed over the antics of his two daughters, Charlotte (Sarah Miles) and Camilla (Candy Clark). Marlowe travels the seedy underworld of crime beneath old London, through a dangerous web of murder and suicide and straight into the sinister world of gangster, Eddie Mars (Oliver Reed). Also starring Joan Collins, Edward Fox, John Mills, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd and Diana Quick.