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The vault at Centennial City Bank is currently rumored to be holding a record amount of cash precious diamonds ancient artifacts & highly-sensitive digital information As the boss of one of the city&s most notorious crime organizations robbing that vault for all it&s worth is constantly on your mind There&s only one problem—this job is too big for just your crew alone You&re going to need help from some of your biggest rival crime bosses if you want to succeed You&ll need to join forces on a series of smaller jobs in order to acquire the skills & resources you&ll need to pull off the biggest heist the city has ever seen—but watch your back! Once you & your new partners in crime are inside the bank vault it&ll be every boss for himself If you manage to safely escape the scene with more loot than your rivals you&ll be revered as the city&s most notorious crime boss Hire your crew plan the heist & get ready for the big score! The Big Score is a competitive game for 1-6 players that plays in 30-60 minutes The game is structured into two distinct halves In the first half of the game players use card drafting to carefully choose which specialists to add to their crew They secretly decide how to assign them to various small heists throughout the city & they need to pick just the right moment to send in their most skilled expert to ensure a job&s success! If these plans go well players steal a variety of loot cold hard cash diamonds that escalate in value as more are gained artifacts that are profitable for the player with the largest collection & hard drives full of information that become lucrative only if hacked with a digital key In the second half of the game individual player abilities come into play as the players attempt the mother of all heists—the big score Players risk being busted by the cops as they steal even more loot in an exciting press-your-luck grand finale inside the vault at Centennial City Bank! The Big Score also features a challenging solo-play mode designed by AJ Porfirio (Hostage Negotiator) ...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Adam Mc Kay co-writes & directs this financial drama starring Brad Pitt Steve Carell Christian Bale & Ryan Gosling The film follows eccentric financial analyst Michael Burry (Bale) as he uncovers an impending crash in the housing market & puts together a plan to profit from it As Burry&s predictions are spread by those who believe he is mad a small number of people including Jarred Bennett (Gosling) Ben Rickert (Pitt) & Mark Baum (Carell) get on board with his idea in the hope of saving their assets The supporting cast

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The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous & popular novel of all Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family Old man Sternwood crippled & wheelchair-bound is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer & he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away But with Sternwood's two wild devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets Marlowe's got his work cut out
- & that's before he stumbles over the first corpse ' Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph ' One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times' Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & died in 1959 Many of his books have been adapted for the screen & he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction His books include The Big Sleep The Little Sister Farewell My Lovely The Long Good-bye The Lady in the Lake Playback Killer in the Rain The High Window & Trouble is My Business
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Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction & this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep & Other Novels collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking philosophising PI Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler created the fast talking trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939 Often imitated but never bettered it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand
- & under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family
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- is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream The hard-boiled detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell My Lovely on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner & the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was born in Chicago It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing & his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933 followed six years later by his first novel The Big Sleep adapted into Howard Hawks' classic 1946 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall If you liked The Big Sleep & Other Novels you might enjoy Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man also available in Penguin Modern Classics' One of the greatest crime writers who set standards that others still try to attain' Sunday Times' Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America & America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster author of The New York Trilogy' Chandler wrote like a slumming angel & invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence' Ross Macdonald author of The Drowning Pool


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The Big Sleep (1978) DVD

Director Winner switched the setting of Chandler&s classic Marlowe mystery from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London perhaps to avoid comparison with its forerunner The 1946 BogartBacall masterpiece is a tough act to follow but this version is interesting in its own right for Mitchum&s take on the fabled private eye
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Director Winner switched the setting of Chandler&s classic Marlowe mystery from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London perhaps to avoid comparison with its forerunner The 1946 Bogart Bacall masterpiece is a tough act to follow but this version is interesting in its own right for Mitchum&s take on the fabled private eye

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