The Maltese Falcon

Image Not Available Director: John Huston Dvd Release: 3rd July, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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The Maltese Falcon is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett which was made into a quintessential film noir. It was filmed twice under the name The Maltese Falcon, in 1931 & 1941. The story also inspired the 1936 film Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle & starring Bette Davis & Warren William, as well as many spoofs & sequels. The 1941 version is the most famous & is often considered a classic Hollywood film. The 1931 film was directed by Roy Del Ruth & starred Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade. Other stars in the film were Bebe Daniels, Thelma Todd, Dudley Digges, Otto Mathieson & Una Merkel. The screenplay was adapted from the Dashiell Hammett novel by Maude Fulton Brown Holmes. It was produced & released by Warner Brothers. While the plot is much the same as the later movie version, the tenor is lighter & there is rather extensive use of sexually suggestive situations in this pre- Hays Code film & contains a rather risque scene of Bebe Daniels apparently nude in a bathtub. Posters Of The Maltese Falcon

John Huston was an American film director. He was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor Walter Huston. He began his film career as a screenwriter & made films mainly from proven books or plays. He acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger s The Cardinal & in Roman Polanskis Chinatown. John Huston is the father of actress Anjelica Huston. In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon & again in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. He was also an accomplished painter who created the 1982 label for Château Mouton Rothschild. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Posters Of Marilyn Monroe

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