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...Maltese Falcon. John Huston's first, and arguably his best. 1940, with Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. From the Dash Hammett novel...
...favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...
SUNDAY: Casablanca. 1942. My favorite Bogey and one of my all-time favorite films. Romance and intrigue in wartime Morocco with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Heinreid, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, et al. CH.56...
...Falcon. Established John Huston as a director and Humphrey Bogart in the kind of double-edged role that became "Bogey." The third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sidney Greenstreet lead a cast that's perfect right down to Captain Jacobi, molding exciting mystery around the deceptive personality of detective Sam Spade...
WEDNESDAY: Casablanca. (1943) Play it again, Sam, and we'll never tire of it. Bogart, Bergman, Rains, Heinreid, Lorre, Greenstreet...