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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569794887
Feature: Release Date: 10/03/2006
Format: NTSC, Black & White
Label: Warner Brothers
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
Publisher: Warner Brothers
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 100 unknown-units
Sales Rank: 65188
Studio: Warner Brothers
Theatrical Release Date: 1941
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Product Description:
THIS DVD IS DISC ONE FROM THE SPECIAL EDITION THAT WAS A THREE DISC SET. IT CONTAINS THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) and THESE SPECIAL FEATURES LISTED: New digital transfer of 1941 movie from restored elements, Commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax, Warner Night at the Movies 1941 short subjects gallery, Vintage Newsreel, Oscar-Nominated Technicolor musical short The Gay Parisian, Classic Cartoon: Oscar nominee Hiawathas Rabbit Hunt, Trailers of The Maltese Falcon and 1941s Sergeant York
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Like few other actors, Humphrey Bogart ruled the Hollywood of the 1940s and 1950s - epitome of the handsome, cynical and oh-so lonesome wolf and looking unbeatably cool in his fedora and trenchcoat, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth; endowed with a legendary aura several times larger than his real life stature, and still admired by scores of women wishing they had been born 50+ years earlier, preferably somewhere in California and to parents connected with the movie business, so as ... Read More
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This DVD issue of the famous classic is the one to get. The print has been digitally restored and looks absolutely great.
The film's merits have been extensively documented - the superb screenplay lifted straight from the riveting novel, a perfect cast matching the novel's characters magnetically, the tight direction and moody lighting and the famous low slung camera angles making so many of the characters larger than life, particularly Sydney Greenstreet. This is a story to revisit regularly ... Read More
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1941's "The Maltese Falcon", Director John Huston's classic film noire adaption of Dashiel Hammett's superb detective novel, was the movie that provided Humphrey Bogart with his signature screen personna, the world-weary, cynical anti-hero with a personal code of honor.
Bogart stars as private detective Sam Spade, whose partner is murdered while on assignment. Spade's investigation leads to his partner's client, the beautiful, mysterious and duplicitious Brigid O'Shaugnessy (played by Mary Astor), ... Read More
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Bogart is excellent as usual in probably his best-known film. The film suffers as I think Mary Astor was miscast as the female love interest. She is too reserved and cold, and the audience never really has a chance to warm to her character. Had Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergan or any of the dozens of excellent actresses available at the time taken the part, it would have completely changed the film. As it is I found myself wondering what Bogart's character sees in her. The writing is forced on that ... Read More
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