Did you know director John Huston placed a reference to one of Humphrey Bogart’s worst films in The Maltese Falcon? See what he did inside.
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The Maltese Falcon: The Bird Is the Word
In today’s guest post, Jim Brymer discusses The Maltese Falcon: Humphrey Bogart was born into the camera (so to speak), if stories can be believed. He was the model for a drawing for an advertising campaign for a brand of…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: The Maltese Falcon
For this week’s Create-A-Caption, we’ve taken an iconic still from the Humphrey Bogart detective classicThe Maltese Falcon and added our on comedic spin to it. We ask you to add your own in the comments below! It’s a nice gift…
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You know the drill. Below is a picture from The Maltese Falcon with Chris’ caption. You can leave your own goofy captions in the comments section below! Try though they might, the gang never could figure out the ending to…
Read more →Film Noir: A To Z
Guest blogger Rick 29 writes: One of the most popular features at the Classic Film and TV Cafe is the site’s “A to Z” list. Awhile back, the Cafe tackled film noir–a daunting task because there so many good ones….
Read more →Character Witness: Humphrey Bogart: Rick Blaine vs. Sam Spade
While most sources say Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day, some claim his real birthday was January 23. Just in case, we offer this classic Character Witness salute and ask you which of Bogey’s most famous screen roles you think is the more iconic.
Read more →Mary Astor: The Prisoner of Moorcrest
Beautiful Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke) was the daughter of teachers who didn’t really want to teach. When lovely Lucile showed a talent for acting and became a semifinalist in a Motion Picture Magazine beauty contest, papa packed up…
Read more →Book vs. Movie: The Maltese Falcon
When you have more than one screen adaptation of a novel, usually one is more faithful to the book than the other. However, in the case of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, it has two pretty accurate translations. The first…
Read more →The Maltese Falcon: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
If you have never seen The Maltese Falcon, you have deprived yourself of something truly spectacular. You should fix that. Immediately. The granddaddy of film noir–the biggest and best of them all–this is one of those landmark films which ushered in…
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