![]() As she spins her tale, Spade's partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), enters, practically salivating over their new client. This Thursby frightens Miss Wonderly, the woman admits. She has spoken with Thursby, but he won't tell her with Corinne is and claims her sister doesn't want to speak with her. She wants to take her sister back home to New York. Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor) shares with Spade her concerns about her sister Corinne, who has hooked up with a no-good guy named Floyd Thursby. ![]() Private detective Sam Spade (Bogart) sits behind his desk fiddling with a tea bag and trying to roll his own cigarette when his faithful secretary Effie (Lee Patrick) comes in and tells him that there's a girl who wants to see him. Soon, we are inside the offices of SPADE AND ARCHER. To Charles V of Spain, by sending him a golden falconĮncrusted from beak to claw with the rarest jewels -īut pirates seized the galley carrying the priceless tokenĪfter this brief written prologue crawls up the screen following the opening credits, we get a panoramic shot of where our story takes place along with the superimposed words SAN FRANCISCO. In 1534, the Knight Templars of Malta paid tribute So much so that I'm running a separate review tomorrow of the 1931 film adaptation of Hammett's tale, which began as a five-part serial between September 1929 and January 1930 in the magazine Black Mask before being published as a hardback novel in February 1930. To be fair, I felt that I needed to watch director Roy Del Ruth's 1931 film of The Maltese Falcon. Until recently, Huston's Maltese Falcon, marking its 70th anniversary today, happened to be the only film version of Dashiell Hammett's story that I'd seen. Anyone who has read much of my writing or seen my comments in various venues know my typical disdain for remakes and my simple rule: Only remake movies that were flawed in the first place. More importantly, Falcon served as the key film that transitioned Humphrey Bogart from the criminals and thugs that stereotyped his acting career into everybody's favorite antihero and a more multifaceted range of roles. Granted, John Huston grew up around movie sets as the son of actor Walter Huston and had a decade of screenwriting experience before he helmed his first feature, but it certainly could be argued that while The Maltese Falcon isn't as groundbreaking as Kane, it did launch a far more consistent directing career for Huston than Kane did for Welles. In 1941, one man's directing debut wowed the world - and with good reason - but Orson Welles' Citizen Kane wasn't the only impressive directing debut that year. You would have kept talking to me.NOTE: Ranked No. I should have kept letting you think I might be an Eskimo because you would have found that interesting. If they can’t see me, they don’t know my age, what I look like… I could be an Eskimo. But when I wear this mask, I can be anyone. No goggles, no lift pass, no poles… no skis. This would be a pretty terrible skier costume. You’re probably wondering why I’m wearing a ski mask. So we probably have about fifteen minutes. They sit there, silently, then at the same time both lean forward, looking left down the street for the bus. He hesitates at the sight of the masked man, then finally sits down on the end of the bench to his right. He leans forward, and looks to his left, then sits back again. He wears a coat and gloves that cover his arms and hands. Excerpt from the play:Ī figure in a ski mask sits in the center of a bus stop bench. ![]() His thriller The Summoning aired on TV One and his short plays have been performed around the world. He is a longtime Hollywood screenplay analyst and screenwriter, a two-time winner of Amazon Studios’ screenwriting contest. His play, Third Window From The Right, took 2nd Place at the 2016 8×10 Theatrefest at the Weathervane Playhouse, Akron, Ohio, GOAT took 2nd Place at the 6th Annual Seoul Players Festival in South Korea, and Sandbox took 3rd Place at the 6th Annual Seoul Players Festival in South Korea. Scott Mullen is a playwright specializing in ten-minute plays, whose plays have been performed across the U.S. This sweet play for teens deals with the struggles of living with social anxiety and allowing others to see who we really are. He eventually convinces Paul to wear one, too, and when Cindy comes along, she pushes them beyond their comfort zone. As they chat, the masked boy explains that he is unable to speak to people without wearing the mask. When Paul arrives at the bus stop, he meets a boy wearing a ski mask. ![]()
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