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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 5, 2010
- Originally Released: 1941
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Humphrey Bogart & Mary Astor | |
Performer: | Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Elisha Cook, Jr., Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Jerome Cowan, James Burke, Murray Alper, John Hamilton, Emory Parnell, Robert Homans, Creighton Hale, Charles Drake, William Hopper, Hank Mann & Jack Mower | |
Directed by | John Huston | |
Edited by | Thomas Richards | |
Screenwriting by | John Huston | |
Composition by | Adolph Deutsch | |
Story by | Dashiell Hammett | |
Cameo: | Walter Huston | |
Produced by | Henry Blanke | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Edeson |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"The stuff that dreams are made of."
Entertainment Reviews:
...FALCON is the archetypal American detective yarn...
Premiere
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Maltese Falcon is among the most important and influential movies to emerge from the Hollywood system -- as significant in some ways as its contemporary, Citizen Kane.
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ReelViews
Boldly manipulative light and shadow, utilizing drastic camera angles, and introducing Bogart's Sam Spade, the first-time director's detective classic defines film noir. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Huston knows just what he is doing all the time... How nice to be a little behind the director instead of, as normally, ten minutes ahead of him.
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Esquire Magazine
The Maltese Falcon is the first crime melodrama with finish, speed and bang to come along in what seems ages.
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The New Republic
There is a spareness of style here that puts many of today's bloated thrillers to shame.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
There's two competing frames of reference throughout: the narrative itself, then a meta-narrative with the characters continually voicing the etiquette of their genre scenario
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Patrick Nabarro
Product Description:
Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. John Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by first-rate performances, excellent camera work, as well as the director's acute attention to detail while shooting the film. Based on the crime novel by Dashiell Hammett. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Sydney Greenstreet), and Best Screenplay. Previous versions of the story were filmed in 1931 (a.k.a. DANGEROUS FEMALE) and in 1936 (as SATAN MET A LADY, starring Bette Davis), and poorly redone in 1975 (THE BLACK BIRD).
Keywords:
Action
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Detectives
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Classic
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Mystery
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Thriller
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Betrayal
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Film Noir
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Recommended
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 111,844
- UPC: 883929154296
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