Duck and Cover

I was recently at my local library checking out DVD's to check out, and i discovered a DVD titled either The Maltese Falcon or Maltese Falcon. It looked like a movie from a different era. I think it is a detective movie. I kinda glanced at the back really quick, then i checked out the Insider.

no...shit.

It's that movie the Maltese Falcon got it's name from... A well-conceled easter-egg, I think Saint knows more about it...

Ummm. I think I'm about to cry. Are you telling me that you don't know who Sam Spade is or haven't heard of Dashiell Hammett novels such as The Thin Man?
The more popular version of this film noir was made in 1941 & starred Humphry Bogart as a detective on a search for a valuable statue at the request of his lovely client. Mayhem, murder & deciet ensue. Go watch your midnight movies & avoid the colourized ones folks.

Tank wrote:It's that movie the Maltese Falcon got it's name from... A well-conceled easter-egg, I think Saint knows more about it...

I might be incredibly stupid, but i'm not that dumb.

Insane-Lark wrote:Ummm. I think I'm about to cry. Are you telling me that you don't know who Sam Spade is or haven't heard of Dashiell Hammett novels such as The Thin Man?
The more popular version of this film noir was made in 1941 & starred Humphry Bogart as a detective on a search for a valuable statue at the request of his lovely client. Mayhem, murder & deciet ensue. Go watch your midnight movies & avoid the colourized ones folks.

Well, just because I don't follow all those old tyme movies...

I had hoped that I'd get a chance to come in & edit that post before it was replied to. Was online for a few minutes before I put my kiddos to bed & felt an overwhelming urge to answer the thread with some information, sadly it looks like I failed to clear things up & insulted the poor folks who don't like excellent old movies & pulp detective novels. I'm sorry I offended you & even sorrier that you don't read as you are missing out on some great books & even more very cool trash. Pardon me, I'll try again & aim for better coherency.
Dashiell Hammett & Raymond Chandler are the two that come instantly to my mind when I think of hardboiled detective novels. Mr Hammett spent a number of years as a Pinkerton detective & loosly based his fiction on some of his experiences. Some of his better known works include The Glass Key, A woman in the Dark, Thin Man.
*The Maltese Falcon was filmed first time in 1931 and then in 1936 under the title Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis. The falcon was changed into a gem-filled ram's horn. John Huston's adaptation from 1941 is the most famous* The latter brought Sam Spade into the public eye as the difinetive hardboiled private eye, played by Humphrey Bogart.
Pretty cool story & a lot of it has become the object of cliche, if it wasn't already. Beautiful lady comes into the office desperate to hire Sam. It appears that her sister has run off with an older man & she is worried. She has arranged a meeting with the man (Thursby) & wishes him followed home, hopefully to her sister. Not only that, she pays $200 up front for the work. Looks to be a piece of cake. It isn't, as of course there is a lot more going on... Murder, treachery, money etc.
Now why don't you go out & give a B&W movie a chance. It's a classic so I bet your local video store has it for a buck & obviously your library does for nothing but a couple of hrs of your time.

Radoteur wrote:

Tank wrote:It's that movie the Maltese Falcon got it's name from... A well-conceled easter-egg, I think Saint knows more about it...

I might be incredibly stupid, but i'm not that dumb.

You might be incredibly stupid, but you're not that dumb.... Right.

Here I post for the sake of posting and you're insulted...

>shakes his head and sighs<

Insane-Lark wrote: Now why don't you go out & give a B&W movie a chance. It's a classic so I bet your local video store has it for a buck & obviously your library does for nothing but a couple of hrs of your time.

Yea,that's a good idea
Btw, It's a shame they didn't shoot the Mel Gibson movie "Payback" in b&w. That would've been cool.

Anybody read any of the Continental Op short stories by Hammet? Or Red Harvest?

Yeah I read that book and boy did it suck!

Well you've got no appreciation of style. C'mon- gritty, hardboiled american fiction-classic.

Yup I've got no appreciation of style! That's why I didn't like something you did.

Well touché.

Thers plenty more touche` where taht caem fom yay!!

Is that deliberate, ironic mis-spelling, or is it just that you can't use the english language correctly?

I think I'll watch it. I've got no problem with B&W movies, as long as they're good.
I watched a small part of it in English class, something about subtle homosexuality in film. I don't remember the names of the characters, but there's a feminine type man who goes in with a cane, and well... toys with it.

w00 pulp! humphrey bogart is so kewl. neurotic chain-smoking wife-beating detective-types are great fun...

speaking of B&W, how many people have seen Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb"? a great movie, and full of weird fallout-isms ... especially the end.

atoga wrote:w00 pulp! humphrey bogart is so kewl. neurotic chain-smoking wife-beating detective-types are great fun...

speaking of B&W, how many people have seen Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb"? a great movie, and full of weird fallout-isms ... especially the end.

You are asking if the main site for Fallout fans, a game based on the nuclear holocaust and other such post apoc staples, has seen the funniest nuclear related movie ever...?

You do know where you are, right?

Hmmm, if we're talking about old detective novels, how about giving the old "Gritty American Novel" a pass and going straight to Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot? Now thats good readin'!