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For Sale - GBP 1,500 - HIGH-BALLIN' & THE BIG SLEEP (1978) - movie poster painting

Artist: Tom Chantrell (All)

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Title:	For Sale - GBP 1,500 - HIGH-BALLIN' & THE BIG SLEEP (1978) - movie poster painting
Artist:	Tom Chantrell (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Acrylic
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	For Sale - GBP 1,500 - HIGH-BALLIN' & THE BIG SLEEP (1978) - movie poster painting
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Added to Site:	5/8/2025
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In all honesty, High-Ballin' is not a film I ever remember seeing or will ever want to see. In doing some background research, the following review raised a chuckle with me:

"As much money seems to have been spent on stuntmen as actors. Cars screech, do wheelies, fly off a large hauler, turn somersaults, burst into flames, and generally do everything but tapdance on their reckless way to oblivion, sometimes on lonely Weston Road or in front of the Harbour Castle Hotel."

The Big Sleep is a remake of a 1946 movie. Set in England, rather than California, the story follows Raymond Chandler's book fairly closely otherwise. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly (and near death) General Sternwood to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters. He soon finds that the attempt is half hearted at best and seems to be more connected with the disappearance of the other daughter's husband, Rusty Regan. Rusty's wife, seems unconcerned with his disappearance, further complicating the mystery. Only General Sternwood seems concerned as mobsters and hired killers continue to appear in the path of the investigation.

Chantrell's artwork makes (what are likely to be) two lacklustre movies seem appealing to potential cinema-goers being faced with an intriguing front-of-house movie poster display.

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