Crime Classics Box: The Big Sleep/Key Largo/The Maltese Falcon

Triple bill of crime classics. In 'The Big Sleep', private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) agrees to rid a wealthy family of a blackmailer who is threatening the younger daughter, but the man is killed before he can act. Drawn nevertheless into the Sternwood family's problems (not least because of his attraction to the elder sister, played by Lauren Bacall), Marlowe uncovers drugs, murder and more blackmail. In 'Key Largo', Frank McCloud (Bogart) is staying at a run-down hotel on an isolated Florida island, Key Largo, when it is taken over by a gangster (Edward G. Robertson) and his entourage, on the run from deportation. An impending hurricane gives McCloud the opportunity and courage to take things in hand and lure the gangster to his death. In 'The Maltese Falcon', Sam Spade (Bogart) is a cynical private eye caught up in the hunt for a jewel-encrusted falcon while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His fellow treasure hunters include a sinister little and large act (Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet), a psychotic tearaway (Elisha Cook Jnr) and a duplicitous femme fatale (Mary Astor).

Director: Howard Hawks
Director: John Huston
Producer: Howard Hawks
Producer: Jerry Wald
Producer: Henry Blanke
Writer: William Faulkner
Writer: Jules Furthman
Writer: Leigh Brackett
Writer: John Huston
Writer: Richard Brooks
Music: Leo F. Forbstein
Music: Max Steiner
Music: Murray Cutter
Music: Adolph Deutsch
Character: Philip Marlowe
Character: Sam Spade
Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Actor: Lauren Bacall
Actor: John Ridgeley
Actor: Martha Vickers
Actor: Dorothy Malone
Actor: Regis Toomey
Actor: Patricia Clarke
Actor: Charles Waldron
Actor: Sonia Darrin
Actor: Louis Jean Heydt
Actor: Peggy Knudsen
Actor: Charles D. Brown
Actor: Bob Steele
Actor: Edward G. Robinson
Actor: Lionel Barrymore
Actor: Claire Trevor
Actor: Thomas Gomez
Actor: Marc Lawrence
Actor: Dan Seymour
Actor: Jay Silverheels
Actor: Monte Blue
Actor: Rodric Redwing
Actor: Sydney Greenstreet
Actor: Peter Lorre
Actor: Mary Astor
Actor: Gladys George
Actor: Ward Bond
Actor: Jerome Cowan
Actor: Walter Huston
Actor: Barton MacLane
Actor: Lee Patrick
Actor: Elisha Cook Jr