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Sep 30, 2017 · Still, the 1931 Maltese Falcon is enjoyable. If we did not have the superior 1941 version, we might think of the 1931 version even more fondly. If you have ever wondered what a more easy-going, less dark version of the 1941 story might look like, this is your opportunity.
In a nutshell, THE MALTESE FALCON told the story about a San Francisco private detective named Sam Spade, who finds himself drawn into a search for a valuable falcon statuette first created during the Crusades, while investigating three murders.
Mar 23, 2024 · Saturday March 23, 2024. Movie Review: The Maltese Falcon (1931) WARNING: SPOILERS. There’s a surreal quality to watching the original 1931 version of “The Maltese Falcon.” It’s like explaining a dream to a friend: You were you, but not really you. Here, Sam Spade is Sam Spade, but not really Humphrey Bogart. Actually, not at all Humphrey Bogart.
Jul 1, 2014 · But The Maltese Falcon, written by Dashiell Hammett in 1929, really was made three times between 1931 and 1941…the 1941 version, with Humphrey Bogart, being the most famous and celebrated. What’s surprising, despite the similarities, is how different each version is.
- Warner Bros. Made It Twice Before, Including Once as A Comedy.
- It Wouldn't Exist If High Sierra Hadn't Been A hit.
- The Studio Wanted George Raft to Play The Lead.
- Humphrey Bogart's Iconic Rapid-Fire Delivery Was The Result of A Studio Note.
- It Inspired The Naming of One of The Bombs That Ended World War II.
- Sydney Greenstreet Had Never Been in Front of A Camera before.
- To Maintain Privacy on The Set, Mary Astor Swore at Some priests.
- It Served as Ingrid Bergman's Guide to Acting with Bogart.
- There Was Almost A Sequel.
- The Cast Reunited For A Remake of sorts.
Dashiell Hammett first published The Maltese Falcon as a serialized story in the crime-fiction magazine Black Mass, following it (in 1930) with a proper hardcover release. Warner Bros. snatched up the movie rights and produced a version in 1931 starring Ricardo Cortez as the hardboiled detective and Bebe Daniels as the femme fatale. (This version i...
John Huston, son of popular stage and screen actor Walter Huston, was a successful scriptwriter for Warner Bros. in the late 1930s, earning Oscar nominations for Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) and Sergeant York (1941). When he asked the Warners for a shot at directing, they agreed (and even let him choose the project himself), but only if his ne...
George Raft was a handsome actor and dancer who'd narrowly escaped an actual life of crime (his boyhood friends included Bugsy Siegel) to become someone who merely played a lot of gangsters. He was the Warners' first choice for The Maltese Falcon. (He'd been their first choice for High Sierra, too.) The Warners had given Huston free rein to make wh...
Detective Sam Spade had a lot of speeches, which the Warners felt tended to slow things down. They asked Huston to pick up the pace by having Bogart (and the others) talk faster. Huston, eager to please on his first film, took the note to heart and instructed everyone accordingly. When the film was a hit, the rat-a-tat pace became one of the hallma...
The atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were code-named Little Boy and Fat Man, respectively, after their shapes. "Fat Man" is what Spade and others call Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon, and it's what inspired Manhattan Project physicist Robert Serber when he named it. It has been falsely reported that "Little ...
The rotund British thespian had spent almost four decades on English and American stages before he finally consented to be in movies at the age of 61. Despite his abundant acting experience, he was terrified to be in front of a camera, and asked co-star Mary Astor to hold his hand. Greenstreet was nominated for an Oscar for this performance and wou...
Thanks to Huston's detailed planning, the shoot ran smoothly and on schedule, giving the cast plenty of time to bond in a low-stress atmosphere. They quickly became tight-knit and protective of the movie they were making, and they sought to keep outsiders away. Mary Astor wrote in her memoirsthat it began when the film's publicist brought a small g...
Bergman didn't know Bogart when she was cast opposite him in Casablanca, and she found him hard to know. "He was polite naturally," she wrote in her autobiography, "but I always felt there was a distance; he was behind a wall." To get a better read on him, she watched The Maltese Falcon(then in current release) several times.
Lest you think the near-automatic greenlighting of sequels to popular movies is a modern trend, Warner Bros. strongly considered aMaltese Falconfollow-up as soon as the film proved to be a hit. Jack Warner even approached Hammett to write it, but the author wanted $5000 (about $80,000 in 2016 dollars) in advance as a guarantee. Warner balked, and t...
In 1943, Bogart, Astor, Greenstreet, and Lorre reprised their roles for a 30-minute radio adaptation of the film, which you can listen to here(it's episode 144).
Feb 22, 2022 · Hammett himself wrote the novel "The Maltese Falcon," which was adapted to film in 1931 and then again in 1936 under the title "Satan Met a Lady." However, it was the 1941 adaptation,...
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Synopsis, historical analysis, personnel profiles, contemporary reviews, and discussion of the film The Maltese Falcon, released in 1931 by Warner Bros., starring Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, and Robert Elliot, and directed by Roy Del Ruth.
