Howard HawksThe Big Sleep (1946),d.Howard HawksTwo Guys From Milwaukee (1946), d.David Butler; Bogart and Bacall appear in cameosDark Passage (1947),d.Delmer DavesKey Largo (1948), d.John HustonThe atmosphere of the film is dark and paranoic - full of suspicion, dread, and intrigue.The film""s title,The Big Sleep, refers to death.Blackmailers and murderers commit their ill deeds (gambling, pornography, vice, perversion) while the world continues on its course, almost asleep.Eventually after a period of disillusionment and vying for political power, the innocent young girl was transformed into a cunning, sexually-liberated Princess who became romantically involved with various men in her military entourage, including opportunistic, studly womanizer Count Alexei, head of the night guards Lt.Malcolm informed him about their real mission - to locate a hydro-electric dam: "The dam is pretty much intact.She told him about her next plan: "Just give me some help nailing the guy when I bring him out...(of) my dream." He loved her although he thought she was "nutty as a fruitcake." Her simplistic idea was to grab the guy in her dream, and then have Glen wake her up during the struggle:"We both come out, you whack the f--ker, and we got him.