À Beira do Abismo was released in the year 1946。À Beira do Abismo is also called as The Big Sleep, Pathos kai, Grande sonno, Gran dormida, Djupa sömnen, Diepe slaap, Al borde del abismo, Tote schlafen fest。

Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem centers about the disappearance of Sternwood's favoured employee who has left with a mobster's wife. Each of the problems becomes a cover for something else as Marlowe probes.

À Beira do Abismo actors and actresses include Humphrey Bogart, Joy Barlow, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers。