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# The Maltese Falcon [DVD] [1941]

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Product Description John Huston made his directorial debut with this classic film noir adaptation of Dashiel Hammett's novel, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. Sam Spade (Bogart) is a cynical private eye caught up in the hunt for a jewel-encrusted falcon while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His fellow treasure hunters include a sinister 'little and large' act (Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet), a psychotic tearaway (Elisha Cook Jr), and the duplicitous femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Astor). desertcart.co.uk Review The Maltese Falcon is still the tightest, sharpest, and most cynical of Hollywood's official deathless classics, bracingly tough even by post-Tarantino standards. Humphrey Bogart is Dashiell Hammett's definitive private eye, Sam Spade, struggling to keep his hard-boiled cool as the double-crosses pile up around his ankles. The plot, which dances all around the stolen Middle Eastern statuette of the title, is too baroque to try to follow, and it doesn't make a bit of difference. The dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Hammett, is delivered with whip-crack speed and sneering ferocity, as Bogie faces off against Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet, fends off the duplicitous advances of Mary Astor, and roughs up a cringing "gunsel" played by Elisha Cook Jr. It's an action movie of sorts, at least by implication: the characters always seem keyed up, right on the verge of erupting into violence. This is a turning-point picture in several respects: John Huston (The African Queen) made his directorial debut here in 1941, and Bogart, who had mostly played bad guys, was a last-minute substitution for George Raft, who must have been kicking himself for years afterward. This is the role that made Bogart a star and established his trend-setting (and still influential) antihero persona. --David Chute END

Review: `Ah yes, sir, the falcon!` - This was the directorial debut of the great, if variable, John Huston, who went on to make such classics as The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The Red Badge Of Courage and Moby-Dick, as well as offbeat films like Wise Blood, Fat City, The Misfits, Freud, and The Dead. It was also the film that finally, after over a decade in bit parts and second leads, consolidated Bogart as a rough-edged, romantic anti-hero of the forties, after his recent breakthrough movie, the superb High Sierra. Perhaps most important of all, it introduced the grateful filmgoer to the massive presence of English-born (from Sandwich!) character actor Sidney Greenstreet, who showed he was not some delirious freak of nature by enlivening later films such as Casablanca, The Verdict, and The Mask Of Dimitrios, all with the unique Peter Lorre, who here plays the prim, perfumed and splendidly named Joel Cairo. Rounding out the corrupt cabal of falconers are Elisha Cook Jr - always great value - as Wilmer the gunsel, and impetuous femme fatale Mary Astor. Bogart as Sam Spade has to decide how far to throw in his lot with these ne`er-do-wells, such is his liking for money and a pretty face, and it`s by no means sure what the denouement of this dark and perverse noir thriller will be - unless of course one has already seen it or read the book, to which it is remarkably faithful. I must have watched it...oh, a dozen times at least, and the pleasure comes from the numerous unforgettable moments: Lee Patrick - as one of that staple of the period, the loyal, wisecracking dame, here as Spade`s secretary and much besides - announcing Joel Cairo with a knowing expression and the single word, "Gardenia!". The way the camera films Greenstreet`s Fat Man from a low angle to emphasise both his bulk and his menace. Mary Astor rearranging the room to hide her fluster, and Bogart telling her sarcastically: "Oh, you`re good, you`re very good...". An uncharacteristically restrained Ward Bond (without a stetson for once) trying to be chummy with Spade while calming his unsmiling lieutenant. Greenstreet`s delighted laughter, hiding such malign purpose, yet genuinely appreciative of Spade`s unpredicatability: "My, but you are a character!" And Lorre simply being Lorre. When was he ever less than enthralling to watch, if only because he was so unlikely a presence, even less likely a film star. His tiny stature beside Greenstreet`s vastness is worth its weight in, appropriately enough, gold. Huston, apart from a couple of odd edits, doesn`t put a foot wrong, and all present grasp their roles as if they knew they might be onto something rather special. There are film noirs I watch more often - The Big Sleep, Out Of The Past, Gilda - but this is a bona fide classic, which bears and repays repeated viewings. Imagine seeing this for the first time back in 1941...
Review: Great - Classic film

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B00004TLBB |
| Actors  | Gladys George, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet |
| Aspect Ratio  | 4:3 - 1.33:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 16,367 in DVD & Blu-ray ( See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray ) 3,514 in Action & Adventure (DVD & Blu-ray) 5,266 in Drama (DVD & Blu-ray) |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (399) |
| Director  | John Huston |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 7321900650120 |
| Language  | English (PCM Mono), Italian (PCM Mono) |
| Media Format  | PAL, Subtitled |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Package Dimensions  | 18.03 x 13.76 x 1.48 cm; 80 g |
| Producers  | Henry Blanke |
| Release date  | 1 Jun. 2006 |
| Run time  | 1 hour and 39 minutes |
| Studio  | Warner Home Video |
| Subtitles:  | Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish |
| Writers  | John Huston |

## Product Details

- **Format:** PAL, Subtitled
- **Genre:** Drama
- **Language:** English, Italian
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 39 minutes

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ `Ah yes, sir, the falcon!`
*by K***D on 10 June 2012*

This was the directorial debut of the great, if variable, John Huston, who went on to make such classics as The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The Red Badge Of Courage and Moby-Dick, as well as offbeat films like Wise Blood, Fat City, The Misfits, Freud, and The Dead. It was also the film that finally, after over a decade in bit parts and second leads, consolidated Bogart as a rough-edged, romantic anti-hero of the forties, after his recent breakthrough movie, the superb High Sierra. Perhaps most important of all, it introduced the grateful filmgoer to the massive presence of English-born (from Sandwich!) character actor Sidney Greenstreet, who showed he was not some delirious freak of nature by enlivening later films such as Casablanca, The Verdict, and The Mask Of Dimitrios, all with the unique Peter Lorre, who here plays the prim, perfumed and splendidly named Joel Cairo. Rounding out the corrupt cabal of falconers are Elisha Cook Jr - always great value - as Wilmer the gunsel, and impetuous femme fatale Mary Astor. Bogart as Sam Spade has to decide how far to throw in his lot with these ne`er-do-wells, such is his liking for money and a pretty face, and it`s by no means sure what the denouement of this dark and perverse noir thriller will be - unless of course one has already seen it or read the book, to which it is remarkably faithful. I must have watched it...oh, a dozen times at least, and the pleasure comes from the numerous unforgettable moments: Lee Patrick - as one of that staple of the period, the loyal, wisecracking dame, here as Spade`s secretary and much besides - announcing Joel Cairo with a knowing expression and the single word, "Gardenia!". The way the camera films Greenstreet`s Fat Man from a low angle to emphasise both his bulk and his menace. Mary Astor rearranging the room to hide her fluster, and Bogart telling her sarcastically: "Oh, you`re good, you`re very good...". An uncharacteristically restrained Ward Bond (without a stetson for once) trying to be chummy with Spade while calming his unsmiling lieutenant. Greenstreet`s delighted laughter, hiding such malign purpose, yet genuinely appreciative of Spade`s unpredicatability: "My, but you are a character!" And Lorre simply being Lorre. When was he ever less than enthralling to watch, if only because he was so unlikely a presence, even less likely a film star. His tiny stature beside Greenstreet`s vastness is worth its weight in, appropriately enough, gold. Huston, apart from a couple of odd edits, doesn`t put a foot wrong, and all present grasp their roles as if they knew they might be onto something rather special. There are film noirs I watch more often - The Big Sleep, Out Of The Past, Gilda - but this is a bona fide classic, which bears and repays repeated viewings. Imagine seeing this for the first time back in 1941...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great
*by D***. on 17 December 2024*

Classic film

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ well acted
*by I***T on 27 November 2025*

an old film for the memories

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