For his eighth sound film, Edward G.Robinson should have received an Academy Award nomination for his role as gangster Caesar Enrico Bandello, but the film had only one Academy Award nomination: Best Writing Adaptation (by Francis Faragoh and Robert N...Can you sing and dance, perhaps?...Well, but you""d be willing to learn...Then I think I can find you a very nice position.Have you heard perhaps of the Barbary Coast?Gus and Rita told the very pleased Lou that they would help the girl, but obviously they had their own intentions.Turned out to be an old friend.A cousin of mine, as a matter of fact...You know, in those days I thought you got married and that was it.But nothin"" is it.Not for ever."Roslyn: "That""s what I can""t get used to.Everything keeps changing."Gay: "I""ll tell you this, though.I wouldn""t know how o say goodbye to you, Roslyn.It surprises me."Conflict in a growing love triangle developed between Gay, Roslyn, and his friend Guido, who attempted o persuade her to ally with him: ("You""re through with Gay now, right? Well, tell me.Sternwood: I used to like mine with champagne.Champagne cold as Valley Forge and with about three ponies of brandy under it...I like o see people drink...You may take off your coat, sir...Too hot in here for any man who has any blood in his veins.You may smoke, too.I can still enjoy the smell of it.Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.The emaciated Sternwood describes the dreariness of his existence.The humid hothouse is necessary for his survival and he is waiting for death - the "big sleep" of the title - in the temperature-controlled greenhouse:Sternwood: You are looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life - crippled, paralyzed in both legs, very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it""s hardly worth he name.