Faulkner and Film

There's a surprising amount of work already done on this. I found copies of two films directly related to him at the library. The first I want to look at is The Big Sleep. It's a film-noir, Bogart-Bacall flick from just after WWII (1946 was the official US release). The other is The Long, Hot Summer, a late 50's take on The Hamlet. This was in Faulkner's heyday, at a time when the old Southern writer was being treated as an international celebrity and embraced by the US government and the academy. It's not that easy to imagine anymore.