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The Maltese Falcon (1941) - IMDb  Film-Noir  A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, ..... Written by J. Spurlin ... Although he story-boarded every scene, John Huston was open to abandoning his plans if his ... "The Maltese Falcon", scripted and directed by Hollywood first-timer John Huston (from Dashiell Hammett's...
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John Huston - Wikipedia  John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906  August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon .... He also did the unusual preparation for this, his first directing job, by...
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir directed by John Huston in his directorial debut. .... The bundle he was clutching contains the Maltese Falcon. ... As the author wrote of the character in 1934: Spade has no ... The 42-year-old Bogart was delighted to play a highly ambiguous character who is both honorable and greedy.
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The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and directed ... As he's leaving, he has a brief conversation in Chinese with a man loitering in a doorway. Later .... The Maltese Falcon was not the first Hammett story to be adapted into a motion picture.
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Film Notes - The Maltese Falcon & Exterior Night - University at Albany  Directed by John Huston ... Hammett's novel, The Maltese Falcon, into his first film as a director, he had to be ... and write an introductory title crawl, both of which would "clarify" the Falcon's lineage. ... Directed and written by Mark Rappaport.
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The Maltese Falcon (novel) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the .... If she (a pretty young woman) can get off with a long prison term, he'll wait for her. ... The novel was serialized in five parts in Black Mask in 1929 and 1930 before being published in book form in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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The Godfather (film series) - Wikipedia  The Godfather film series consists of three crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the novel of the same name by Italian American author Mario Puzo. ... The Godfather, the first film in the franchise, was released on March 15, 1972. The feature-length film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based...
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By Ken Levine: Netflix pick of the month: GRAND THEFT AUTO  Feb 17, 2010 ... He also starred and co-wrote the screenplay with his father, Rance. ... Ron Howard's first fifteen years of directing are a lot more fun than his second ... It is exactly the type of film Grand Theft Auto is and you would have loved it Ken. .... I actually saw GTA in 1977 as a double feature with Eat My Dust at the...
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The Maltese Falcon - (1941) - TheMoviesCentral.com  I mean, you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more .... Sam Spade: Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. ... Two "Maltese Falcons" were used for the film because Humphrey Bogart dropped .... John Huston had Mary Astor run around the set several times before each of her...
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What's this bird, this falcon, that's everybody's all ... - True Classics  Sep 5, 2011 ... And so the world was introduced to private detective Sam Spade in Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. ... The Op, whose real name is never given, is a shadowy operative of a San Francisco-based detective...
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Sydney Greenstreet - Film Actor - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Film actor Sydney Greenstreet co-starred with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre ... scheming roles, such as Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon. ... he made his film debut in John Huston's classic, The Maltese Falcon (1941), ... whose father was a merchant marine, left home at the age of 18 to make his...
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The Maltese Falcon (novel) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.
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The 3 Falcons: Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon  The first version of The Maltese Falcon was distributed to theaters in 1931 ... Daniels was a silent screen actress best known for comedies and the 1929 musical Rio Rita. ... Barabbas, a character which replaced Hammett's original Casper Gutman. .... Sydney Greenstreet, who at the age of 61 made his film debut in the 1941...
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When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it. - EN World  Ok, tell me that the Maltese Falcon is not one of the best movies in history. ... to be a film noir classic, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, ... Cook Jr. and Lee Patrick reprising their roles from the 1941 version.
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Let's Talk About The Black Bird: The Fedora Chronicles Presents  The Maltese Falcon (1941) seems to epitomise the dark detective movies of the 40s, ... He is a like a lamb to the slaughter, not in control at all, film noir heroes are ... is the weakest in the film but it could be said it works very well as comic relief.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir directed by John Huston in his directorial debut. .... After some intense negotiation, Gutman and Cairo agree; Wilmer is knocked out in a scuffle. ... Hammett reportedly drew upon his years as a detective in creating many of the other ... The 1941 film is the third film version of the novel.
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This Day in Jewish History / A 'creepy' actor is born - Haaretz  Jun 26, 2014 ... Lowenstein moved his family to Vienna before the start of World War I, ... He played Japanese detective Mr. Moto in a series of eight films, ... Joel Cairo, in The Maltese Falcon, and Ugarte, in Casablanca. ... return to Germany, in 1951, to direct and star in the movie The Lost One, which he also co-wrote.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir directed by John Huston in his directorial debut. ... The film stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade and Mary .... Though Hammett worked for a time as a private detective for the Pinkerton ..... Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, is a fan of detective...
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The Maltese Falcon - Edward Copeland's Tangents  Oct 18, 2011 ... Until recently, Huston's Maltese Falcon, marking its 70th anniversary today .... in the casting or how big a part he played in the casting, but the film ... for supporting actress for 1941, but not for The Maltese Falcon but ... You didn't care at all. ... Outside of Spade, Sydney Greenstreet's Kaspar Gutman grabs the...
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Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Considerable ...  Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in his first meeting with perfumed and mysterious Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre), inquiring about a bird, in John Huston's The...
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) - Wikipedia  The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir directed by John Huston in his directorial debut. ... The film premiered on October 3, 1941, in New York City, and was .... After some intense negotiation, Gutman and Cairo agree; Wilmer is knocked out in a ... Reportedly, Humphrey Bogart was not the first choice to play Sam Spade.