Classic Films

The Maltese Falcon

Belinda O March 10, 2016 9 Comments

This post had been updated and re-posted. Click here for the revised review of The Maltese Falcon.

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Dark Victory (1939) – Classic for a Reason August 16, 2016 at 4:45 pm

[…] a short time later when producers were casting The Maltese Falcon, Geraldine Fitzgerald turned down the role of Brigid O’Shaughnessy, in part because Bogart […]

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – Classic for a Reason January 17, 2017 at 4:03 pm

[…] was given his big break in John Huston’s directorial debut, The Maltese Falcon, and this film proved to further his career in yet another fashion with its grisly reality and […]

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Out of the Past – Classic for a Reason June 6, 2017 at 7:11 am

[…] Before Mitchum was cast in the lead, the part allegedly was offered to Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield and Dick Powell, three of the most popular actors of the time. It was said to first have been offered to Bogart because the story on which the film is based, Build the Gallows High, and the movie itself, both strongly echo elements of The Maltese Falcon. […]

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In This Our Life – Classic for a Reason July 1, 2017 at 8:32 pm

[…] was Huston’s second movie as a director, the first being The Maltese Falcon. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel of the same name, it is entirely likely that this movie […]

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Four Classic Films they couldn’t make today — and one I’d like to see them take on – My World With Words August 1, 2017 at 11:06 am

[…] Olivia de Havilland alone make it worth watching, and it was John Huston’s second film (after The Maltese Falcon), but it just doesn’t quite reach its full potential. And, I’d suggest they change the […]

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loisajay September 5, 2017 at 9:04 pm

Oh, this is a good one, Belinda. I did not know the back story of some many refusals for the various roles. Glad Bogey got it! Mary Astor is very good, too.

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1. Belinda O September 6, 2017 at 12:49 am
  
  I think it’s interesting how things have changed. Today so many actresses would clamor for that kind of “bad girl” role, and not think twice about their reputation. From what I’ve read about Mary Astor, she wasn’t at all concerned about what people thought of her (and had a number of scandals to prove it).
  
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  1. loisajay September 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm
    
    She did! She looks kind of prim to me, so I was surprised on her story!
    
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Christmas in Connecticut – Classic for a Reason December 5, 2017 at 5:11 pm

[…] his voice and presence lend themselves as well to this light comedy as they did to dramas such as The Maltese Falcon and […]

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