The Big...

There are an astonishing number of great films which start with the words 'The Big...'. They include The Big Country, The Big Combo, The Big City (also known as Mahanagar, ), The Big Red One, The Big Sky, The Big Steal (the 1949 version with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and the one and only William Bendix), The Big Heat, and The Big Lebowski. Towering over all of these is Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep, (1946), although of course this towers over most films.