Maltese Falcon [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Bette Davis
  • Actor : Warren William
  • Actor : Humphrey Bogart
  • Actor : Mary Astor
  • Actor : Mel Blanc
  • Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Bette Davis
  • Creator : Warren William
  • Creator : John Huston
  • Creator : Brown Holmes
  • Creator : Dashiell Hammett
  • Director : Friz Freleng
  • Director : Jean Negulesco
  • Director : John Huston
  • Director : Robert Clampett
  • Director : William Dieterle
  • EAN : 0012569676015
  • Format : Black & White
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Special Edition
  • Format : NTSC
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • Label : Warner Home Video
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Subtitled: Spanish, Subtitled: French, Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
  • Model : 67601
  • MPN : 67601
  • Number Of Discs : 3
  • Number Of Items : 3
  • Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : 67601
  • Picture Format : Academy Ratio
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Warner Home Video
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2006-10-03
  • Running Time : 100
  • SKU : 1PudvdAD044af-9z
  • Studio : Warner Home Video
  • UPC : 012569676015

The Maltese Falcon is still 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 Sidney 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

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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