The Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition (1941 & 1931 versions / Satan Met a Lady)
by Friz Freleng, Jean Negulesco, John Huston, Robert Clampett, William Dieterle
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Actor: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Mel Blanc, Warren WilliamDirector: Friz Freleng, Jean Negulesco, John Huston, Robert Clampett, William Dieterle
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: John Huston
Writer: Brown Holmes
Writer: Dashiell Hammett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 178 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Groundbreaking Film
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazon is right to tag The Maltese Falcon as essential video. This is a great period movie and stylistic film. It was also a trendsetter. It established Humphrey Bogart's career as a leading man, made the anti-hero a stable of Hollywood, and launched film noir into a fad. It's also fun to watch how Warner Bros. had to dance around the film censors of 1941. Times have changed. If you're not familiar with the norms of day, then when Spade is conflicted at the end, you might wonder when he consummated a relationship with the Mary Astor character. Everything was kept off-screen in those days, and the hints were obtuse as well.
This is a great film. I have only one objection: Astor didn't have the appeal necessary to carry off her role. Spade would never fall for that dame. A strong female lead is as necessary for great drama as a nasty bad guy. I guess that why The African Queen and Casablanca are my favorite Bogart films.
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/03/2006Still 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 Sydney 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
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