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    The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir in which a San Francisco private detective deals with three unscrupulous adventurers, all seeking a jewel-encrusted...
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    The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the...
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  • The Maltese Falcon may refer to: The Maltese Falcon (novel), detective novel by Dashiell Hammett published in 1930, and its film adaptations: The Maltese...
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    Maltese Falcon is a full-rigged ship using DynaRig technology, which was built by Perini Navi in Tuzla, Istanbul, and commissioned by her first owner,...
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  • The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth....
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    the annual falcon until 1798 when the Order was expelled from the Maltese islands by the French Directory. The Knights of Malta's tribute of a falcon...
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    Sam Spade (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
    the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. The Maltese Falcon...
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  • The Maltese Falcon Society is an organization for admirers of Dashiell Hammett, his 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon, and hardboiled mystery books and writers...
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    Dashiell Hammett (category The New Yorker people)
    Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain...
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    artist and creator of the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the 1941 Warner Bros. film production, The Maltese Falcon. During the 1930s and 1940s, Sexton...
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    Humphrey Bogart (category People from the Upper West Side)
    as the lead in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese...
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    Peter Lorre (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
    contract, renewable each year, which lasted until 1946. The year after Maltese Falcon, he portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca (1942). While Ugarte...
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    was cast against type as the bug-eyed baby-faced psychopathic killer Wilmer Cook in the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon. He went on to play deceptively...
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    DynaRig (redirect from Falcon rig)
    to one of the world's largest yachts, the Maltese Falcon. When the original patent rights and residual technology were purchased from the German government...
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    magazine Latitude 38, the EOS is longer overall than her nearest rival, the Maltese Falcon. However, much of the length of Eos is in the bowsprit, and although...
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  • cuisine Maltese culture Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people Maltese people, people from Malta or of Maltese descent Maltese dog...
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    Sydney Greenstreet (category British expatriate male actors in the United States)
    the 1940s. He is best remembered for the three Warner Bros. films - The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944) - with...
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    He made 48 films for them, including The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, and Casablanca, the last of which earned Bogart his first nomination...
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    Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Maltese Falcon (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and The Searchers (1956). Bond...
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  • Moorcrest (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Astor, the star of The Maltese Falcon among many other films, sometimes lived at Moorcrest. Her parents, Otto and Helen Langhanke, owned the home for...
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    noir. Of the twenty-six National Film Registry noirs, in only four does the star play a private eye: The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Out of the Past,...
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    1873, is also known as the Mediterranean peregrine falcon or the Maltese falcon. It includes caucasicus and most specimens of the proposed race punicus...
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  • Peckinpaugh, a parody of Humphrey Bogart. The film is a parody of Bogart films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. The ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn...
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  • starred. In the 1930 detective novel The Maltese Falcon, a small statuette provides both the book's title and its motive for intrigue. The name MacGuffin...
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  • references to The Maltese Falcon (1941). Lawrence Tierney, who appeared in film noir movies in the 1940s, guest stars as Cyrus Redblock. The Dixon Hill setting...
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    John Huston (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Dieterle and Howard Hawks, among others. His directorial debut came with The Maltese Falcon (1941), which despite its small budget became a commercial and critical...
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  • Vella (born 5 June 1953), or Maltese Falcon, is a Maltese businessman, former boxer and the former national president of the Rebels Motorcycle Club in Australia...
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    such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Flamingo Road (1949). George...
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    O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Astor began her long motion picture career when a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. When...
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    Thomas Perkins (businessman) (category Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    from the original on 2007-08-19. "Maltese Falcon". Perini Navy (the yard, that built the ship). Archived from the original on 2007-05-04. "The Maltese Falcon"...
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