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...Cambridge in the last few years. It will last two entire months and include 36 feature length films. As with any selection, one can argue with what has been chosen. The management itself, in a small note at the end of its program, regrew that four films--The Maltese Falcon. The Big Sleep, Chinatown and The Conversation--are unavailable. But the group, is so inclusive as it is that the only possible complaint is not what it excludes but what it includes. The recent films--Sleuth, The Long Goodbye , Klute. Harper and The Last of Sheila-- leave you wondering what...
...more than whodunits, move swiftly along from mystery to discovery, and further on to the last mystery; that even when you add up all the facts you don't know what happened in human terms. At the center of the best mysteries there is always a fake Maltese Falcon, but the true detective gamely takes the next train to Constantinople anyway, to get on the trail of the "real...
...some, the sympathetic conversations with others, the words "fuckin' hippie" that were spat at me more than once that day. I remember shuttling leaflets and leafletters back and forth from Muhlenberg College to outposts, and the traffic accident I caused on one run. The woman in the old Falcon with the "War is not healthy for children and other living things" bumper sticker found out what I was doing and decided to ignore it; I never told my parents...
...tailor's dummy of a man, who wears a hairnet and a moustache band to sleep every night, and whose moustache, indeed, doesn't move when he talks. Poirot is not the coolest of detectives; he's always in control of the situation (this is no Chinatown or Maltese Falcon) but he doesn't care to keep his voice down--sometimes he screams to provoke his diffident witnesses, sometimes he just chortles in glee. "There are too many clues in this room" he sings out in a high-pitched warble as he makes his first inspection of the murder room...
...Maltese Falcon [1941]. Classic Bogart, with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. Directed by John Huston...