I do not like The Big Sleep. It's shot too flatly for a film noir and Hawks focusing entirely on the bickering and romance makes it obvious that he'd rather work on screwball comedies. It also cuts all the seedy stuff from the novel.
The problem with watching Casablanca first is every Bogart film noir afterwards I just think this is alright but it would be better if it was Casablanca.
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Is this that one where Kirk Douglas slaps the hair off of some girls head and she never forgave him? Man somebody google that slap, it made the Cagney grapefruit scene look like nothing.