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 The Maltese Falcon Quotes
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 The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film about Sam Spade, a private detective, who gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable statuette. The screenplay was written by the film's director, John Huston , but a great deal of the dialogue for the movie was...
| Name: |
John Marcellus Huston | | Birth Date: |
August 8, 1906 | | Death Date: |
August 28, 1987 | | Place of Birth: |
Nevada, Missouri, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Middletown, Rhode Island, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American, Irish | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
film director, scriptwriter, actor |
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 Biography of John (Marcellus) Huston
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 Best known as a film director and, in recent years, as a screen actor, John Huston has had a no less productive and distinctive career as a screenwriter. He was born to Rhea and Walter Huston in 1906 in a Missouri town named Nevada. At the time his fathe... summary from source:
 Biography of John Marcellus Huston
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As the most important member of a Hollywood family dynasty whose professional roots were planted in vaudeville, John Huston (1906-1987) left an indelible mark on American cinema as a director, writer, and actor. The son of actor Walter Huston and Rhea Go...
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 The Maltese Falcon Summary
1,829 words, approx. 6 pagesIn his 1929 novel, The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett introduced the novel reading public to the hard-boiled private detective as central character. Samuel Spade, of Spade and Archer Investigations, is a cynical, violent and socially unattractive man... summary from source:
 The Maltese Falcon Information
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros. film written and directed by John Huston, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, and starring Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, Sydney...
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 Film - Dienst The Maltese Falcon
07/16/2002: 333 words, approx. 1 pages The Maltese Falcon ... and other classic Film Scores by Adolph Deutsch. Restauriert von John Moigan, gespielt vom Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Ltg.: William Stromberg. Marco Palo 8.225169, Länge: 75:51 Min. Weil fell die Filmmusik als kreative Sparte oft vernachlässigt wurde, gerieten Vauch... summary from source:
Sensible Sound Deutsch: The Maltese Falcon and Other Classic Film Scores.
12/01/2002: 311 words, approx. 1 pages William Stromberg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Marco Polo 8.225169. Stromberg and his Moscow forces have been doing a whole series of famous movie scores for Marco Polo over the years, and it was only a couple of months before this one arrived that I... summary from source:
 AP News 1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pagesThe American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'... summary from source:
AP News 2007 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 493 words, approx. 2 pagesThe American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.8. "Schindler's List," 1993.9. "Vertigo," 1958.10. "The Wizard of Oz,"...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by George Grella
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In an essay on Henry James, James Thurber recounts a night in a "New York boite de nuit et des arts called Tony's," where Dashiell Hammett announced that "his writing had been influenced by Henry James's novel The Wings of the Dove." Although confessing his inability to find "many feathers of The Dove in the claws of The Falcon," Thurber discovers a few useful parallels: a fabulous fortune at the center of both books, two designing women who lose their... summary from source:
Critical Essay by James Naremore
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[Huston made from The Maltese Falcon] one of the classics of dark cinema, a film important not only for its fidelity, but because it bears his own distinctive signature. The very choice of Falcon was consistent with the personality Huston would convey in nearly all his subsequent work—perhaps Falcon even determined that personality to some degree. Notice how neatly it fits into the Huston canon; most of his good films—Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, We Were Strangers, The Asphalt Jung... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Peter Barnes
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[The Maltese Falcon reveals John Huston's] style at its best—direct, analytic, and disciplined. This film succeeds brilliantly as a character thriller, but also, through its ruthless elimination of inessentials, gains an extra depth. All the characters are obsessed; their lives are devoted to one pursuit only, the acquisition of money (in the shape of the fabulous maltese falcon, "the stuff that dreams are made of"). The Maltese Falcon and, later, The Treasure of Sierra Madre sho...
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