Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Valentina Grizodubova, 31, is a she-falcon of the Red Air Force. She has a son five years old, nicknamed "Little Falcon." She is pretty, she is dark and she has dimples. She is also dangerous in a military sense, and so, by her account, are her feminine colleagues...
Though Humphrey Bogart's picture is not as good as "The Maltese Falcon," which it would be very hard to equal, it's definitely a first-class fifth-column picture, and well worth a trip into Boston. Mr. Bogart has at last found his place in movies. The part of a hard-boiled Broadway guy fits him perfectly, and Warner Brothers, who are not usually slow to recognize a good thing when they have it, would do well to keep him in parts like this, instead of making him a bloodthirsty gangster whom everybody is supposed to hate...
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon ($7.50), Rebecca West's two-volume, 1,200-page philosophic travelogue about Yugoslavia...
When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple...
...confusing, but "Maltese Falcon" is one of the most exciting pictures that's come out of Hollywood in years. Add Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, add a superb job on photography, whether it's heightening the tension of a midnight phone-call, or vivifying the nickname of "The Fat Man," and you have a nearly perfect thriller. It is marred only by the ending. We may be grateful for the absence of sentimentality, but even a detective's romance should not meet so brusque a fate...