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The Maltese Falcon DVD

Unrated :: Warner Home Video :: Released: 2000-02-15

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The Maltese Falcon Summary Sam Spade Is Caught In A Frantic Search For The Jeweled Falcon Of Malta And His Partner's Killer. His Pursuit Leads Him To A Group Of Desperate Individuals Who Also Want The Bird.

Still the tightest, sharpest, and most cynical of Hollywood's official deathless classics, bracingly tough even by post-Tarantino standards. Humphrey Bogart is Dashiell Hammett's definitive private eye, Sam Spade, struggling to keep his hard-boiled cool as the double-crosses pile up around his ankles. The plot, which dances all around the stolen Middle Eastern statuette of the title, is too baroque to try to follow, and it doesn't make a bit of difference. The dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Hammett, is delivered with whip-crack speed and sneering ferocity, as Bogie faces off against Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, fends off the duplicitous advances of Mary Astor, and roughs up a cringing "gunsel" played by Elisha Cook Jr. It's an action movie of sorts, at least by implication: the characters always seem keyed up, right on the verge of erupting into violence. This is a turning-point picture in several respects: John Huston (The African Queen) made his directorial debut here in 1941, and Bogart, who had mostly played bad guys, was a last-minute substitution for George Raft, who must have been kicking himself for years afterward. This is the role that made Bogart a star and established his trend-setting (and still influential) antihero persona. --David Chute

The Maltese Falcon DVD Techincal Details Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Director: John Huston
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 101 mins
UPC: 012569501225
Binding: DVD
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2000-02-15
Region Code: 1
Specs: Black & White, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono),