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The Maltese Falcon (1941) is one of the most popular and best classic detective mysteries ever made, and many film historians consider it the first in the dark film noir genre in Hollywood. ...
The precocious director Huston was very faithful to Dashiell Hammetts 1929 novel The Maltese Falcon, that had originally appeared as a five-part serialized story in a pulp fiction, detective story magazine publication named Black Mask. ...
Hammetts novel had previously been filmed twice: a low-budget film (directed by Roy Del Ruth) with Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels as Dangerous Female (1931) (aka The Maltese Falcon), and again remade as Satan Met a Lady (1936) (directed by William Dieterle) with Warren William and rising star Bette Davis. ... The idea of a sequel following the films success, to be titled The Further Adventures of the Maltese Falcon, was scrapped when Huston became unavailable and when Hammett demanded an exorbitant financial guarantee. ... The classic mystery film has also been spoofed in The Maltese Bippy (1969) with TV-show stars Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Murder By Death (1976), and The Cheap Detective (1978).
The bejeweled, priceless Maltese Falcon [a 50-pound plaster cast, seven in all, made by the Props Department at Warners] is at the center of the intriguing film as an elusive but valuable object that is greedily desired, for different reasons, by all the principals. ...
The credits wash down the screen over a view of the Maltese Falcon - a black figurine that casts a dark shadow from an angular source of light. ... ] The mysterious legend of the fabled, treasured statuette scrolls up the screen (above the falcon) to set the stage:
In 1539, the Knights Templar of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with rarest jewels- - - - - but pirates seized the galley carrying this priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery to this day. ... [Despite their obvious past, he is now sickened by the widowed woman (dressed to resemble the black, lead falcon revealed at the end).
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