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The Maltese Falcon (1941) // Dir. John Huston

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THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) dir. John Huston

[shoemakerobstetrician]

Why does Crowley have the Maltese Falcon?

My head cannon is that the 1941 Church/Magic Show/Zombie evening (date??) ended badly and Crowley did a geographic to Hollywood where he worked on the film (it would have been in production in 1941) and kept a souvenir.

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PETER LORRE in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) | dir. John Huston

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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"You shouldn't watch 'The Maltese Falcon,' it's problematic and---

Fuck your "problematic." Give me some popcorn.

unmute.

Writers, you really need to read Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon." The man is a master of description, atmosphere, and memorable characters.

The movie is amazingly close to the original text, and a masterpiece in its own right.

And fuck people who try to police what other people read and watch.

[spongebob-connoisseur]

same energy

[irritablegallowglass]

Gifs of Eliot that no one asked for but I made them anyway (38/?)

[quanatural]

I wanted Peter Lorre to move, so I made this gif.

Cairo is really cute, but he is in this scene … poor guy, he should be protected.

Aside from the plot, I just want to see him angry, with big eyes.

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We see Peter Lorre suffer onscreen so often, and he rarely gets any sympathy from anyone besides the audience. So I really treasure this cute moment from "Passage to Marseilles." Not the least because out of context, you can imagine this as any number of other PL characters who could use a blanket and some cocoa.

A few ideas off the top of my head:

When Cairo met Wilmer: During some misguided treasure hunt in the tropics, Joel Cairo almost dies, and is rescued by a young man named Wilmer Cook. The rest is history.

The Baron is retrieved from the Wild Goose: ...and already talking about getting back on track with plans before they even get him onto a stretcher.

Ugarte was only mostly dead! "Ugarte is dead" my ass. If Strasser executed Ugarte before extracting the location of the visas from him then he's an idiot, and if he tortured him to death in one night then he's incompetent. So after Rick and Louie declare their beautiful friendship, they make a stop at the jail to free the tight-lipped prisoner, and bring him to Ferrari's to recuperate in hiding. Now that he's at his lowest and literally stripped of everything he had, Ugarte actually has impressed everyone.

Johnny West is just hung over: Icey is trying to sober up her boyfriend yet again. Johnny eagerly drinks the offering, only to realize that it's coffee and not booze.

Leyden needs coffee: ... or it's Corny Leyden, after attempting to pull an all-nighter working on his new book about Dimitrios. A member of his house staff gives the unkept artist some much needed caffeine and informs him that he's got a press conference in twenty minutes.

Dr. Herman Einstein: ...is sleeping in the Brewsters' basement, either during or after the events of the film. The aunts announce that coffee is ready, and Elanie brings the hung-over doctor a cup.

Vicky Emmric: ...has talked Lottie into camping out at the cemetery overnight with hot cocoa. This is his way of coping with his friend's confession to murder and going to the gallows.

Feel free to add your own ideas.

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Yesterday's picture from "The Maltese Falcon" led me to indulge in more Joel Cairo, as can happen.

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Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

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The Maltese Falcon 1941

Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor

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Mary Astor - The Cameo Girl

Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois on May 3, 1906) was an American actress of German and Portuguese ethnicity. She was noted for her classic beauty and a renowned profile that earned her the nickname “The Cameo Girl.”

Recognizing her beauty, her parents pushed her into various beauty contests. Luck arrived when she became a runner-up in one of Motion Picture Magazine's photography contests and came to the attention of Harry Durant of Famous Players–Lasky, who helped her get her first Hollywood contract with Paramount in 1920.

Contracts with Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer followed, and she worked in film, television, and on stage until her retirement in 1964. She also had a respectable career as a writer. Her 1959 autobiography Mary Astor: My Story was one of the first confessional autobiographies to come out of Hollywood.

Although her career spanned over four decades, she is best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and concert pianist Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941).

After her retirement in 1964, Astor lived the final years of her life as a resident of the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles where she succumbed to the effects of respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema at the age of 81.

Legacy:

Named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926

Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1941 for The Great Lie (1941)

Awarded Best Acting by the National Board Review in 1941

Won the Photoplay Awards - Best Performances of the Month for January 1942 for The Great Lie (1941) and The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Authored two best-selling books of memoirs, Mary Astor: My Story  (1959) and A Life on Film (1971) as well as five fictional novels

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month in March 2014

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6701 Hollywood Boulevard for motion picture