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THE MALTESE FALCON
1941
Director
John Huston
Starring
Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Gladys George
Peter Lorre
Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime
100 minutes
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In THE MALTESE FALCON, screenwriter-turned-director John Huston created a shadowed, unreal territory where nothing is as it seems. The rules of the game keep changing for everyone, save private investigator Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), who is unfailingly guided by his obfuscated sense of justice and a morality that has come full circle.
More than anyone, Bogart was the face of film noir. Most histories of the genre mark Huston’s definitive adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled novel as the starting point, and Bogie’s portrait of Sam Spade encapsulates much of what makes noir so compelling: Spade is a callous cynic by experience, a louse whose dim estimate of human behaviour is his strongest professional attribute, and a closet romantic beneath it all. THE MALTESE FALCON itself is poised in a world between romance and realism, a place where dreams come from.
More than anyone, Bogart was the face of film noir. Most histories of the genre mark Huston’s definitive adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled novel as the starting point, and Bogie’s portrait of Sam Spade encapsulates much of what makes noir so compelling: Spade is a callous cynic by experience, a louse whose dim estimate of human behaviour is his strongest professional attribute, and a closet romantic beneath it all. THE MALTESE FALCON itself is poised in a world between romance and realism, a place where dreams come from.