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When Bogart played Sam Spade in Hammett's The Maltese Falcon (1941), he saw through the deceptions of Mary Astor, and turned her over to the police. When he played Marlowe in Chandler's The Big Sleep (1946), he got there first, and Eddie Mars walked out the door to be gunned down by his own henchmen. He had control. Elliot Gould as Marlowe has none. Sure, he has the Bogart style--the self-confident, sarcastic attitude towards the police, the crooks, and even the incompetent gunsel who tails him. But he utterly lacks the substance. When...
...Spotlights etch sharp shadows in the sunken reliefs on its walls, where in panel after panel Emperor Augustus, dressed as a pharaoh, respectfully offers incense, eye paint, wine, crowns or flowers to the two brothers, to the ram-headed Khnum, to the great goddess Isis and her son, the falcon-headed Horus. Two carved lions guard an entrance, and the god Heh kneels to support the heavens as represented on the ceiling. There stylized vultures soar across a sky once painted bright blue and studded with gold stars. The doorway itself is flanked by two goddesses represented as crowned cobras...
...game in provoking your cornered authority. You strain toward the desert shadows, seeing something I don't see. Maybe your god speaking to you. Drawn not by love, I settle beside you, my breath light so I won't disturb you. With my presence you rage like a young falcon and beseech your god that my death be slow...
Harvard Square Theater--Friday, Casablanca, 1, 4:30, 8:05; The Maltese Falcon, 2:45, 6:15, 9:50; Saturday, Sunday, The Goodbye Girl, 1, 4:30, 8:05; Prisoner of Second Avenue, 2:55, 6:25, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight shows, The Man Who Fell to Earth...
...Cheap Detective--Neil Simon keeps those pots boiling with another patently bogus ploy to unite famous detectives and get them to satirize themselves. Peter Falk is no Bogey, however, and nobody else is who he is supposed to be either. The plot is some clone of the Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and whatever else. Puffed up with hocks and the usual empty calories that Neil Simon spoons out so handily this might better have been titled The Big Turkey or The Maltese Sleep. Go see the originals...