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"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) Watch Along (Patreon)

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2024-05-20 16:00:17
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Praise be all things Film Noir! The aesthetic is just too good! I cannot wait to watch more of these!!!!! I loved seeing HUMPHREY! and a lot of the cast from "Casablanca"! I think this will be even more amazing on a rewatch but over all I loved it and all things Noir. Especially the crime, the mystery and the deceit never knowing who to trust! The classic Archetype's are awesome and allll they bring to the table.

Talk to me about what you love about this movie! Can't wait to see what ya'll think! Because I for sure missed somethings!!!

xx

ames

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"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) Watch Along

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Catchermag

30 seconds in and you have a patreon for life. She may have been a dame but she sucker punched me like a heavyweight on the take.

Jeffrey Schmidbauer

John Huston's directorial debut. He and "Bogie" will collaborate on many movies together. You'll even see Huston do a few cameos on screen. As a matter of fact, Huston is an actor in his own rite. He appears in "Chinatown" as the rich patriarch who addresses Nicholson's character as "Mr. Gits".

Catchermag

There are qualities of noir that aren’t singular to the genre, and have similarities to the comedies of the 30’s and 40’s. The rapid way of talking, the verbal sparring, the single shots with two actors lobbing witticisms at each other like conversational tennis, the strong women who held their own and more with the men…..all of these could be said of the comedies of the 30’s and 40’s. I’d love to see a poll of black and white comedies from that time period. His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night…..just fantastic films that deserve your attention.

Catchermag

BTW, Wilmer is played by a great character actor Elisha Cook Jr, (also in an episode of Star Trek btw), and he was in another great Bogart film The Big Sleep. As a much more sympathetic and tragic character. The Big Sleep is essential noir, although the plot makes no sense and even the author of the book admitted so. I highly recommend it, it’s filled with fantastic one liners and zingers.

Patrick Reynolds

I loved this, Ames. And I really loved your noir opening. You looked marvelous. Maltese is one of my favorite films. Since you enjoyed this one, I would recommend another great Bogart noir film, "Key Largo." It stars another classic noir actor, Edward G. Robinson and Bogarts real wife, the great Lauren Bacall.

JM63

Sam Spade... what a cold MFer. Almost makes Casablanca Rick look like a starry-eyed dreamer. What I noticed this time was Bogart's stillness in certain scenes. He could be hit with a shocking revelation or a killer comeback, but the muscles in his face don't even move one millimeter. But he's still completely captivating! How does he do that? (SPOILER WARNING)

RFK Fan

Great opening! Love watching you channel your inner Myrna Loy…

Toc

Oooo, I am so psyched for this, but since you asked what do we/I like about this movie, I'll just say that the first thing that comes to mind: THE DIALOG! And one particular line, I've been using a lot over the last few years, I even sampled it and put it on a track: "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter....." DAMN!

Teemu Laitinen

I would highly recommend watching The Cheap Detective (1978). It's a comedy that uses plot points primarily from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

Toc

- Dealing with a family thing all day, at last I got to watch it!!!  This was such an incredible reaction!!!  First thing's first: we ALL love Peter Lorre!  (pronounced Loray).    That guy is absolutely one of the great character actors.  Never seen him NOT good! Great actor, great voice, endlessly imitated by comedians, or in cartoons. (Just like Bogart!) - Effie!  Love how you loved Effie!!!  I love her too, but now I love her even more! - It ain't you; I've seen this movie a million times and I STILL just barely follow the whole schemes!  Ultimately it's a mystery film so I suppose that goes with the territory, to be fair! - Now when you see Casablanca next, you'll understand why the camera makes such a big deal when The Fat Man (Sidney Greenstreet) walks into the club. His character is super minor to the plot, and the only reason to cast him and make a big deal about him walking in is simply as a callback to "Maltese Falcon"! Just so they could stick him on the poster!  (After Maltese Falcon, they'd package Bogart, Lorre and Greenstreet in multiple movies, Casablanca being one of 'em.) -  Man, Mary Astor is so great in this!  She was actually from the silent era twenty years earlier, a seemingly odd casting choice, but a great one! I feel like Jack and Faye totally channel Bogart and Mary Astor for Chinatown. - I wrote too much! Yet again!!!!  It's only because the reaction was so great!!!!!!!!!!

Toc

P.S. The intro!!!! How could I forget the intro!!!!! Look at you, nailing the style already!!! I never knew they had fake movie cigarettes! What are they like? How does it compare to smoking a real cigarette, or a joint? Which is it closer to?

Toc

So sorry, one more thing: when Bogart does that big long fast speech, and you pointed out how hard it is to memorize that particular type of dialog, that's the stuff I live for in these reactions! I love how you always have two trains of thought going on: the emotional.....and the technical! (and now I shall close this tab, lest I comment even more!!!!) 😂

JM63

I think Wilmer's role is to serve as an inverted version of Spade. Wilmer has seen too many gangster pictures and is primarily motivated by the thrill of being a tough guy. But Spade has seen a hundred guys like Wilmer and outlasted them all. (SPOILS)

Shawn Goforth

I'm glad this film fell to Bogart. Someone else alluded earlier to how this role broke him out of being cast as the second "heavy" or sidekick in countless gangster movies in the 30s. This one launched him into leading man status, and he never looked back. It's disappointing to see that this actually falls almost dead center in the middle of his career, as far as credited roles goes. What might have been had someone noticed the potential earlier. Peter Lorre (Cairo) had breakout international fame in his 3rd role in Fritz Lang's M in 1931, but immediately fell into being typecast as this sort of slimy, scheming villain who always looked up to no good. He also had a hard time escaping his Mr. Moto detective films (I think I counted 8 of them). Thank goodness he is still regarded as one of the most memorable character actors of the classic Hollywood era and was able to work continuously until he died in the early 60s. This has never been one of my favorite film noirs, simply because I think there are better examples of the genre that emerged after the trend really took off, but I definitely appreciate it for what it did for the careers of everyone involved, as well as kicking off the movement. Also, this is one of the most in-your-face examples of the Hitchcock macguffin, as the falcon really serves no purpose, other than to be the thing with which everyone is obsessed.

AJ

Thanks everyone that voted for this. Zero percent chance I would have seen any other way.. Ames...agree will be good to rewatch knowing that Sam was playing everyone. I would want to watch a movie where they chase the Falcon all over the world. That's more my style. Loved your intro BTW.

Hold Down A

Can’t wait to watch more noir for sure

Andrew Roach

I was wracking my brain as to where I had seen Spade's murdered partner before and it hit me, without giving anything away he was in Miracle On 34th Street, 1947. To expand on something already said, as you have watched some Star Trek TOS episodes the actor who played Wilma was in a TOS episode playing a defense attorney defending Kirk on a murder charge in the episode "Court Martial." Trek is so vast you can name a movie and someone in it was probably in Trek. Ok, I exaggerate but off the top of my head I thought of Mad Max Fury Road... check, 12 Monkeys...check, V for Vendetta... couldn't think of anyone in that in Trek lol, anyone?

James Rogers

A nice little bedtime story. Bogart/Huston is a perfect actor/director combo .Really hope you get to see M one of these days for a different side of Peter Lorre.