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Which Raymond Chandler detective story did Howard Hawks adapt as The Big Sleep?
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Howard Hawks (right) directing (from left to right) John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo (1959).
Howard Hawks adapted the 1939 novel The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler for his 1946 film of the same name.12
While the film is famously based on that specific novel, it is worth noting that the original book itself was constructed by Chandler from two of his earlier, separate short stories that he combined into one narrative.3