Join the library for a discussion and screening of The Big Sleep [1946] starring Humphrey Bogart. Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, and John Ridgely. "When private investigator Philip Marlowe (Bogart) accepts the blackmail case of one of Los Angeles' wealthiest men, his probe leads deep into a web of lies, drugs, pornography and murder woven around his client's two beautiful daughters. But Marlowe's most startling discovery is his inexorable attraction to one of the sisters."

We will be using this film, and those in the March series, to uncover Film Noir, its ties with American history, and the hard-boiled crime fiction novel.