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Violence-Screen's All-Time Rocker-Shocker!: That's the heavily-
hyphenated tagline for The Big Sleep, which we borrowed from
Andrew and watched in our ongoing orgy of pre-move borrowed
media consumption. I didn't even know there was such a thing as
a "violence-screen", but they had all sorts of weird movie
gimmicks back then.  We put the DVD in upside down and ended up
watching the unreleased 1945 version of the movie, which
included long dialogueless scenes which were presumably the ones
not written by William Faulkner. Most memorable is the text
adventure-like scene where Humphrey Bogart is snooping around a
house, finds some keys, unlocks a desk with one of the keys,
finds a box in one of the drawers of the desk, takes it out of
the desk, unlocks the box with another one of the keys, and
takes out a book of ciphers. Next scene: he's in his office
trying to solve the ciphers! What's next, the Towers of Hanoi?
Afterwards we found out that we'd