The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks (1946)

This was kind of a 'mystery pick'. On my second batch of movie-getting, I just handed the list over and asked the fella to pick for me. I didn't quite catch the 'third' movie (when he told me which 3 he picked), and two of them were unmarked with no titles on the DVD. So when I popped this in the old player, wasn't sure what was going to come up. 

Another one I hadn't seen, and didn't know much about. I had heard the title before. I was pleasantly surprised that Humphrey Bogart was in it (a big fan of his) and Lauren Bacall. The story itself was very confusing (I thought it was just me, but was happy to have this confirmed in my post-watching research.) And I also found out that this was made in the film noir genre of movie making (am I starting to sound movie-like?).  Again, Wikipedia can explain better than I can. 

I can see why this movie was on the list. 

One word to describe The Big Sleep: Confusing.