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Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

John Huston


  • Country: USA
  • Year: 1941
  • Language: English
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  • Runtime: 101 min.

Adapting Dashiell Hammett's classic private-eye novel, John Huston's first film as director stands alongside Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night as one of the best debut features in film history.

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    • Monday October 11
    • 5:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

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Adapting Dashiell Hammett's classic private-eye novel, John Huston's first film as director stands alongside Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night as one of the best debut features in film history. Laid-back and frostily cool, Humphrey Bogart became an instant star as gumshoe Sam Spade, whose pursuit of a legendary, bejeweled statuette entangles him with a compulsively lying femme fatale (Mary Astor), a ruthless, loftily erudite and enormously fat adventurer (Sydney Greenstreet), his prissy but equally dangerous partner (Peter Lorre), and a young, tough-talking hoodlum with something to prove (Elisha Cook, Jr.). Featuring perhaps the most perfect ensemble cast in film history, The Maltese Falcon is deliciously cynical, endlessly quotable, and a key forerunner of film noir.

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