The Maltese Falcon Reviews

Catharine 2021-12-30 17:20:42

Samuel Spade and Miles Archer run a private detective agency in San Francisco. One day, a beautiful customer, Wonderly, came and asked them to follow a man named Thursby because he abducted her sister and paid $200 in advance. Spade thought the story was weird and the commission was strangely high,...

Kirsten 2021-12-30 17:20:42

Text/caesarphoenix In real life, private detectives are often a kind of wretched existence. Most of the time they are just tracking extramarital affairs and collecting evidence of divorce (or even splitting or encountering the right). A bit of technical content is to find individuals and be a...

Leonard 2021-12-30 17:20:42

I heard about the film’s name long ago, just as the famous "Sunset Boulevard" is the ultimate symbol of the arrival of the lonely day of black and white movies, "Malta Eagle" is known as the originator of "film noir". In fact, after watching this film, I don’t think Hollywood has ever made a "black...

Dasia 2021-12-30 17:20:42

What this movie released in 1941 changed 1. It defined Humphrey Bogart's subsequent acting career. The tough guy Sam Spade rescued him from his secondary role in B-grade gangster movies in the past ten years and brought him into a series of classic movies such as "Casablanca", "Blood Sands" and...

Angus 2021-12-30 17:20:42

Tough detective, a male myth is shattered 　　-from "The Maltese Eagle" to "The Kiss of Death" 　　 　　one. Black Origin 　　1941, John Houston filmed his directorial debut, "Malta Eagle". From this movie, a movie era full of crime, violence, suspense and shadows began. Beginning with "The Eagle of...

Lou 2021-12-30 17:20:42

This is recognized as the pioneering work of film noir. In the clouds and fog surrounded by its plot when I first watched it, there were too many clues, and the rhythm and speed of the film were too fast. I had to watch some scenes repeatedly. , And it’s difficult to distinguish between true and...

Darrell 2021-12-30 17:20:42

Most researchers now agree that "The Stranger on the Third Floor" (1940), which is only 64 minutes long, is the first real noir film. Because of the length of the film, a considerable number of people think that John Houston’s debut novel "The Maltese" "Eagle" (1941) was the first film noir, and...

Duane 2021-12-30 17:20:42

The film is the first work of film noir, and when I watched it for the first time, I watched it intermittently for a whole day, and many of its storylines happened off-screen. For example, Sabo was mentioned all the time. It didn’t appear from the beginning to the end, and then every scene was...

Zachariah 2021-12-30 17:20:42

Shrewd detective mystery shopper friend stigma Mongolia sacrifice themselves in order to do themselves a big fish bait long-term gamble destroy the righteous cause feelings of courage and fraud affair with a moral compact, relatively fast acting good character-driven role-play performance of the...

Cleora 2021-12-30 17:20:42

Sam Spade and partner Archer opened a detective agency in San Francisco. One day, a lady came to visit and commissioned them to find her missing sister. They immediately launched an investigation and found that the lady's sister was with a mysterious man named Sess. I thought it was just an...