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...Maltese Falcon, the best detective movie ever made, plays this week beginning tomorrow at the Brattle Theater. Humphery Bogart is Sam Spade, cool, calm and marvelous. Mary Astor plays the shady woman, a sexist stereotyped role that is nonetheless irresistible in the context...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

Today: The Big Sleep, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Starts Wed.: The Maltese Falcon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMETABLE | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

...Maltese Falcon, 6, 7:50, 9:40 p.m., weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...Maltese Falcon. John Huston's first, and arguably his best. 1940, with Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. From the Dash Hammett novel...

Author: By Richard R. Briney, | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: screen | 1/30/1974 | See Source »

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