• 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 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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  • film adaptations: The Maltese Falcon (1931 film), starring Ricardo Cortez and directed by Roy Del Ruth The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), starring Humphrey...
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    referred to in the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as in the 1931 and 1941 film adaptations. "La cesión de Malta a los Caballeros...
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    Sam Spade (category Thriller film characters)
    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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  • Newspapers Invented the Detective. p.97 The Snatch The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency[permanent dead link] Family Honor The Maltese Falcon Motor City Blue...
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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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  • Svengali June 1931 13 June The Maltese Falcon 20 June A Free Soul 21 June The Black Camel 27 June I Take This Woman 28 June Goldie July 1931 11 July Smart...
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  • screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Private detective Ted Shane returns to work with...
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    Ward Bond (category American male film actors)
    Capra. Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Gentleman...
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    Elisha Cook Jr. (category American male film actors)
    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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    Peter Lorre (category American male film actors)
    naturalized citizen of the United States. Director John Huston saved him from more B-pictures by casting him in The Maltese Falcon. Although Warner Bros...
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    with Warner Bros. 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...
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    Humphrey Bogart (category American male film actors)
    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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  • Kilimanjaro Mountain (乞力马扎罗山上的雪) Gone with the Wind (乱世佳人) The Chronicles of Narnia (纳尼亚传奇) The Maltese Falcon (马耳他黑鹰) Tang Weijie; Ding Xiaofei (2017-05-07). 陈良廷、刘文澜夫妇谈外国文学翻译...
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    Roy Del Ruth (category Film directors from Delaware)
    Broadway (1929) The Aviator (1929) Hold Everything (1930) The Life of the Party (1930) Blonde Crazy (1931) The Maltese Falcon (1931; aka Dangerous Female)...
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    Ricardo Cortez (category American male film actors)
    was the first actor to portray Sam Spade in the original pre-Code version of The Maltese Falcon (1931); the latter film was later overshaded by the 1941...
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  • Arthur Edeson (category Presidents of the American Society of Cinematographers)
    landmarks in film history, including The Thief of Bagdad (1924), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Frankenstein (1931), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and...
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    Dwight Frye (category American male film actors)
    Wilmer Cook (the "gunsel") in the first film version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. He had a featured role in the horror film The Vampire Bat...
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    Red Harvest (section Film)
    Lad (2004). Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to 'The Maltese Falcon'. MacFarland & Company. p. 122. ISBN 9780786419623. Grossman...
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  • Dragon (1931) The Maltese Falcon (1931) Mary (1931) The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) The Speckled Band (1931) Arsène Lupin (1932) Doctor X (1932) The Death Kiss...
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    Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941) while Murder, My Sweet (1944) introduced the character Philip Marlowe to film. Marlowe would appear again in The Big Sleep...
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    Vision: The Most Influential Full-length Investigation of Dashiell Hammett's Novels Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key and The Thin...
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    Walter Huston (category American male film actors)
    uncredited appearance in the 1941 film noir classic The Maltese Falcon, portraying the ship's captain who is shot just before delivering the black bird to Sam...
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  • Kelly and Stanley Donen The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward...
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    Joe Gores (category Maltese Falcon Award winners)
    Hammett (1975; made into the 1982 film Hammett), Spade & Archer (the 2009 prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon) and his Edgar Award-winning...
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  • Hal B. Wallis (category Film producers from California)
    of Robin Hood, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, and Now, Voyager. In March 1944, Wallis won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards...
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  • Leo F. Forbstein (category American film score composers)
    entombed in the Corridor of Immortality at Home of Peace Cemetery. The Squall (1929) The Widow from Chicago (1930) The Maltese Falcon (1931) The Millionaire...
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  • The Thin Man Goes Home is a 1944 American comedy mystery film directed by Richard Thorpe. It is the fifth of the six Thin Man films starring William Powell...
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