"Bros records the film earned $967,000 domestically and $805,000 foreign. The film received three nominations at the 14th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Sydney Greenstreet for Best Supporting Actor, and John Huston for Best Adapted Screenplay. As a result of the film's success, Warner Brothers immediately made plans to produce a sequel entitled ""The Further Adventures of the Maltese Falcon"", which Huston was to direct in early 1942. However, due to Huston's high demand as a director and unavailability of the major cast members, the sequel was never made. In 1989, ""The Maltese Falcon"" was selected for preservation in the United"
"John Huston John Marcellus Huston (; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident. He returned to reside in the United States where he died. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941), ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"" (1948), ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1950), ""The African Queen"" (1951), ""The Misfits"" (1961), ""Fat City"" (1972) and ""The"
"owned the rights to ""The Maltese Falcon"" and hired David Giler to adapt. Giler tried to work on the script with his friend John Milius but they were unable to collaborate. Giler then decided to turn the project into a comedy, and Stark let him direct. Filming was notable for frequent clashes between Stark and star George Segal. Lee Patrick and Elisha Cook, Jr., were reprising their roles from the original ""The Maltese Falcon"". The Black Bird The Black Bird is a 1975 film released December 25, 1975 starring George Segal and Stéphane Audran. It is a comedy sequel to"
"Maltese Falcon"" (1941). During the liberation of concentration camps in 1945, the Psychological Warfare Department (PWD) of the United States Department of War produced an American propaganda documentary film directed by Billy Wilder. The film known as ""Death Mills"", or , was intended for German audiences to educate them about the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. For the German version, ""Die Todesmühlen"", Hanuš Burger is credited as the writer and director, while Wilder supervised the editing. Wilder is credited with the English-language version. Two years later, Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation"
"The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film, based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly. Maude Fulton, Brown Holmes, and Lucien Hubbard (who went uncredited) wrote the screenplay. The supporting cast features Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Una Merkel, and Dwight Frye. A print has been held by the Library of Congress since the 1970s. In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) and"
"that many of the signatures feature the same idiosyncratic characteristics. Fred Sexton Fred Sexton (June 3, 1907 – September 11, 1995) was an American artist and creator of the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the 1941 Warner Bros. film production, ""The Maltese Falcon"". During the 1930s and 1940s, Sexton was championed by ""Los Angeles Times"" Art Critic Arthur Millier, and his work was collected by Los Angeles-area art collectors including actor Edward G. Robinson and movie director John Huston. Sexton also taught art and headed the Art Students League in Los Angeles between 1949 and 1953. Fred Sexton completed his"
"Fred Sexton Fred Sexton (June 3, 1907 – September 11, 1995) was an American artist and creator of the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for the 1941 Warner Bros. film production, ""The Maltese Falcon"". During the 1930s and 1940s, Sexton was championed by ""Los Angeles Times"" Art Critic Arthur Millier, and his work was collected by Los Angeles-area art collectors including actor Edward G. Robinson and movie director John Huston. Sexton also taught art and headed the Art Students League in Los Angeles between 1949 and 1953. Fred Sexton completed his first painting while still an adolescent. In 1929, Los Angeles"
"(1978), and ""Lifeforce"" (1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's ""Deliverance"" (1972). He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire. John Hoesli John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's ""The African Queen"", Stanley Kubrick's """" (1968), Anthony Asquith's ""Orders to Kill"" (1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's """" (1985) with Don Dossett. It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in ""The African"
"associated with the leftist Popular Front. Nino Frank Nino Frank (born 27 June 1904 in Barletta, Italy − Paris, 17 August 1988) was an Italian-born French film critic and writer who was most active in the 1930s and 1940s. Frank is best known for being the first film critic to use the term ""film noir"" to refer to 1940s US crime drama films such as ""The Maltese Falcon,"" although research indicates that the term was used in French film reviews and newspaper articles in 1938 and 1939. Nino Frank was born in Barletta, in the southern region of Apulia, a"
"Nino Frank Nino Frank (born 27 June 1904 in Barletta, Italy − Paris, 17 August 1988) was an Italian-born French film critic and writer who was most active in the 1930s and 1940s. Frank is best known for being the first film critic to use the term ""film noir"" to refer to 1940s US crime drama films such as ""The Maltese Falcon,"" although research indicates that the term was used in French film reviews and newspaper articles in 1938 and 1939. Nino Frank was born in Barletta, in the southern region of Apulia, a busy port town on Italy's Adriatic"
"Blondell in the cheerfully amoral gangster film, ""Blonde Crazy"" (1931). That same year, he directed the first version of Dashiell Hammett's novel, ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1931). Ricardo Cortez portrayed the roguish private eye whose investigation of a murder case entwines him in a plot involving unsavory people searching for a fabled, jewel-encrusted falcon. While the plot somewhat mirrors the 1941 remake, this pre-Code version features sexual innuendo, including Bebe Daniels bathing in the nude, overt references to homosexuality and one instance of cursing. Del Ruth reunited with James Cagney for the crime drama ""Taxi!"" (1932) and then directed the comedy"
"and Nunnally Johnson. Bogart enjoyed intense, provocative conversation and stiff drinks, as did Huston. Both were rebellious and liked to play childish pranks. Huston was reported to be easily bored during production, and admired Bogart (also bored easily off camera) not just for his acting talent but for his intense concentration on the set. Now regarded as a classic film noir, ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941) was John Huston's directorial debut. Originally a novel written by Dashiell Hammett, it was first published in the pulp magazine ""Black Mask"" in 1929, and had also served as the basis of two other movie"
"Rhodes of Africa Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee. The film was the idea of South African novelist Sara Millin, who pitched the idea of a film of Rhodes' life to Michael Balcon. Plans to make the movie were abandoned when General Smuts expressed opposition to the project. However he changed his mind after he read a copy of the script. Leslie Banks, Clive Brook, Cedric Hardwicke and Brian Aherne were all discussed for"
"John Hoesli John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's ""The African Queen"", Stanley Kubrick's """" (1968), Anthony Asquith's ""Orders to Kill"" (1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's """" (1985) with Don Dossett. It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in ""The African Queen"" at Butiaba on Lake Albert. Hoesli was also an assistant art director for many films which often went uncredited including Alfred Hitchcock's ""Jamaica Inn"" (1939), Gerald Thomas's ""Carry on Emmannuelle"""
"and Theodore Bikel. ""The African Queen"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it ""culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"". The film holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews. Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) and his sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steam launch named the ""African Queen"", helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie"
"The African Queen (1977 film) The African Queen is a television film which aired on CBS on March 18, 1977. It stars Warren Oates as Captain Charlie Allnut and Mariette Hartley as Rose Sayer, reprising roles originated by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in the 1951 film of the same name. Rather than being a remake, the plot continues after the events of the original story, with Allnut and Sayer being recaptured by the Germans and forced to transport a 75mm cannon. Television critic Cecil Smith described the film's concept as ""maybe the silliest in the history of the medium."""
"Bogart and Mary Astor was released. Once restrictions were lifted from showing this film sometime after 1966, the film was retitled ""Dangerous Female"" for U.S. television in order to avoid confusion with the 1941 remake, which had previously been the only version available by the original name. These films were followed by other adaptations and parodies, including the 1975 comedy-sequel, ""The Black Bird"", in which Sam Spade Jr., played by George Segal, inherits his father's agency. The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film, based on the 1930 novel of the same name"
"his ashes were scattered along the runway at the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles. Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and ""Tootsie"" (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known"
"the relationships of the characters. The cast also includes Frederic Franklin as the Baron, Nathalie Krassovska as the Flower Girl, Igor Youskevitch as the Officer, and André Eglevsky as the Dancing Master. The film is commercially available only as a bonus feature on the ""three-disc special edition"" of ""The Maltese Falcon"" issued in 2006 by Warner Home Video. In 1954, Victor Jessen created a black-and-white film of ""Gaîté Parisienne"" by laboriously splicing together strips of film he had surreptitiously recorded in theaters during performances by Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo over a ten-year period (1944–1954) and then editing the footage"
"rights to the Dashiell Hammett novel ""The Maltese Falcon"", economical Warner Bros. executives decided to film another version of the book and assigned contract writer Brown Holmes to pen the screenplay. Showing little regard for the original material, Holmes converted its object of desire - a jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon - into a ram's horn filled with precious gems, changed character names (Sam Spade became ""Ted Shane""), altered the sex of one of the criminal masterminds from male to female, and retitled the story, first to ""The Man in the Black Hat"" and then ""Men on Her Mind"". Filming"
"or period, treating subsequent films that evoke the classics as fundamentally different due to general shifts in filmmaking style and latter-day awareness of noir as a historical source for allusion. While the inceptive noir, ""Stranger on the Third Floor"", was a B picture directed by a virtual unknown, many of the film noirs still remembered were A-list productions by well-known film makers. Debuting as a director with ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941), John Huston followed with ""Key Largo"" (1948) and ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1950). Opinion is divided on the noir status of several Alfred Hitchcock thrillers from the era; at least"
"Sydney Pollack Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 movies or shows and produced over 44 films. His 1985 film ""Out of Africa"" won him Academy Awards for directing and producing. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and ""Tootsie"" (1982) in which he also appeared. Some of his other best known works include ""Jeremiah Johnson"" (1972), ""The Way We Were"" (1973), ""Three Days of the Condor"""
"final film for Bogart and John Huston. Co-written by Truman Capote, the eccentrically filmed tale follows an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure. Bogart sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for over $1 million in 1955. Working outside of his own Santana Productions, Bogart starred with Katharine Hepburn in the John Huston directed ""The African Queen"" in 1951. The C.S. Forester novel on which it was based was overlooked and left undeveloped for fifteen years until producer Sam Spiegel and Huston bought the rights. Spiegel sent Katharine Hepburn the book and she suggested Bogart for the male"
"African Queen"" (1951), King Vidor's ""War and Peace"" (1956), and """" (1985). However, he is best known for his extraordinary Technicolor photography on three films directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the 1940s — ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1947, for which Cardiff won an Oscar), and ""The Red Shoes"" (1948). Shooting took place in Mexico from November 1, 1983, to February 10, 1984. In the film, a camel is knocked to the ground, and after struggling to get back up, its hind legs are drawn forward with wires so that it is forced"
"The Maltese Falcon (novel) The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine ""Black Mask"" beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade (who also appeared later in some lesser-known short stories), was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of"
"pre-Code film, ""The Maltese Falcon"", based upon the Dashiell Hammett novel. Warner's cartoon unit had its roots in the independent Harman and Ising studio. From 1930 to 1933, Disney alumni Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising produced musical cartoons for Leon Schlesinger, who sold them to Warner. Harman and Ising introduced their character Bosko in the first ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon, ""Sinkin' in the Bathtub"", and created a sister series, ""Merrie Melodies"", in 1931. Harman and Ising broke away from Schlesinger in 1933 due to a contractual dispute, taking Bosko with them to MGM. As a result, Schlesinger started his own studio,"
"the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been, and, in their cockier moments, thought they approached. Other characters in ""The Maltese Falcon"", however, were based on people he met or worked with during that time. The novel itself was serialized in five parts in ""Black Mask"" during 1929 and 1930 before being published in book form in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf. It was first filmed the next year and for a second time as ""Satan Met a Lady"" in 1936, but rewritten as a light comedy with many"
"before being published in book form in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel has been filmed four times, twice under its original title: There have been two audiobooks of the novel: There has been one stage adaptation: The Maltese Falcon (novel) The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine ""Black Mask"" beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The"
"the fictional newspaper reporter Torchy Blane. During the 1930s and 1940s, MacLane worked alongside Humphrey Bogart in several films. He played Lieutenant Dundy opposite Bogart's Sam Spade in ""The Maltese Falcon"", writer/director John Huston's acclaimed film noir based upon Dashiell Hammett's novel. MacLane again collaborated with both Bogart and Huston on the Academy Award-winning 1948 adventure film ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"". MacLane's many other film credits during the 1940s include ""The Big Street"", Victor Fleming's ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", Fritz Lang's ""Western Union"", Reginald Le Borg's ""The Mummy's Ghost"", and Frank Borzage's ""The Spanish Main"". He also"
"films. When he was wanted in Hollywood, they sent word up to his mountain cabin by courier. He would come down, do a picture, and then withdraw again to his retreat. Cook died of a stroke at age 91, on May 18, 1995, at a nursing home in Big Pine, California. He was the last surviving member of the main cast of ""The Maltese Falcon"". Elisha Cook Jr. Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American stage, film and television character actor who often specialized in roles as ""cowardly villains and neurotics."" He is"
"at a flea market in New Jersey in 1991 by Emmy-winning producer/director Ara Chekmayan. Adam Savage, co-host of ""MythBusters"", has gone to great lengths to create an accurate replica. The Maltese Falcon is considered a classic example of a MacGuffin, a plot device that motivates the characters of the story, but otherwise has little relevance. Following a September 1941 preview, ""Variety"" called it ""one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form"": Unfolding a most intriguing and entertaining murder mystery, picture displays outstanding excellence in writing, direction, acting and editing—combining in overall as a"
"36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir. In 1941, RKO Pictures released ""Citizen Kane"" made by Orson Welles. It is often considered the greatest film of all time. It would set the stage for the modern motion picture, as it revolutionized film story telling. The strictures of wartime also brought an interest in more fantastical subjects. These included Britain's Gainsborough melodramas (including ""The Man in Grey"" and ""The Wicked Lady""), and films like ""Here Comes Mr. Jordan"", ""Heaven Can Wait"", ""I Married a"
"Stephen Frears Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director. Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including ""My Beautiful Laundrette"", ""Dangerous Liaisons"", ""High Fidelity"", ""The Queen"", ""Philomena"", and ""Florence Foster Jenkins"". He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director: for ""The Grifters"" and ""The Queen"". In 2008 ""The Daily Telegraph"" named him among the 100 most influential people in British culture. Frears was born in Leicester, England. His mother, Ruth M. (""née"" Danziger), was a social worker, and his father, Russell E. Frears, was a general practitioner and accountant."