Word: spading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sidney Greenstreet lead a cast that's perfect right down to Captain Jacobi, molding exciting mystery around the deceptive personality of detective Sam Spade...
...much of me that sometimes I am confused: sometimes I believe it is more important--that is the land and the city, Des Moines, that speaks through me, using me the way I imagine I am using them. The earth itself is wet black and you can shove a spade down into it up to the handle without hitting a rock. A tin can will grow here...The narrator's muffled but desperately articulate voice speaks as if from a dungeon of alienation: the voice pleads with the reader for understanding, and as the speaker surfaces out of the narrative...
...most faithful adaptation of Dushiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. Mary Astor, Peter Lerre, and Sidney Greenstreet lead a cast that's perfect right down in Captain Jacobi, modling exciting mystery around the deceptive personality of detective Sam Spade...
...Maltese Falcon, Bogart plays Sam Spade in the 1941 John Huston classic from the Dashiell Hammett novel...
After placing a classified ad in which he makes himself out to be a second generation Sam Spade, Eddie-somewhat to his astonishment-gets a call for a job. He shows up at a local hotel, where he picks up a package from a fat man who resembles Falcon's Kasper Gutman (the Sidney Greenstreet character). Inside the package are a sizable bundle of money and a pistol. Eddie is plunged into a plot as intricate and confounding as The Big Sleep...