"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"
"Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, ""The Maltese Falcon"". Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. ""The Maltese Falcon"", first published as a serial in the pulp magazine ""Black Mask"", is the only full-length novel in which Spade appears. The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction—Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless and less-than-glamorous detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of previous"
"an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client. From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of ""The Maltese Falcon"". Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic portrayal was well-received, and is generally"
"Dan Winter as Inspector Snape & others, Feargus Dunlop as Timmy Diamond & Heather Westwell as Beatrice Von Falkenberg and others. The Falcon's Malteser The Falcon's Malteser is a comic mystery by Anthony Horowitz. The first of ""The Diamond Brothers"" series, it was first published in 1986. The title is a spoof of ""The Maltese Falcon"", to which there are various allusions throughout the story. The novel was adapted for the 1988 film ""Just Ask for Diamond"". Early on the book, Nick Simple (who narrates the story) explains that, before he went to live with his older brother Herbert, he"
"detectives, most notably his detached demeanor, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. Spade was a new character created specifically by Hammett for ""The Maltese Falcon""; he had not appeared in any of Hammett's previous stories. Hammett says about him: Spade has no original. He is a dream man in 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. For your private detective does not—or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague—want to be"
"1967, and he died from cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 62. His funeral was held in London. Tom Conway Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television and radio actor remembered for playing private detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond and The Saint) and psychiatrists. Conway is perhaps best known for playing ""The Falcon"" in ten of the series' entries, taking over for his brother, George Sanders, in ""The Falcon's Brother"" (1942), in which they both starred. He is also well known for his appearance"
"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"
"Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (""The Maltese Falcon""), Nick and Nora Charles (""The Thin Man""), and the Continental Op (""Red Harvest"" and ""The Dain Curse""). Hammett ""is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time"". In his obituary in ""The New York Times"", he was described as ""the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."" ""Time"" magazine included"
"appeared in forty films between 1929 and 1946, including the original pre-Code version of ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1931) (which was later released under the title Dangerous Female). Digges portrayed Casper Gutman, the character later made famous by Sydney Greenstreet in the 1941 version. He played the Chief Detective who plots to capture the title character in ""The Invisible Man"" (1933), opposite the unseen Claude Rains. He played the role of the Heavenly Examiner in both the original Broadway production and the 1930 screen versions of Sutton Vane's play ""Outward Bound"". He also worked as a director on Broadway. Dudley Digges"
"in Great Britain. Eventually settling in Hollywood, he later became a featured player in many Hollywood crime and mystery films. In his initial American films, ""Mad Love"" and ""Crime and Punishment"", he continued to play murderers, but he was then cast playing Mr. Moto, the Japanese detective, in a run of B pictures. From 1941 to 1946 he mainly worked for Warner Bros. His first film at Warner was ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941), which began a sequence in which he appeared with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet. This was followed by ""Casablanca"" (1942), the second of the nine films in"
"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"
"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"
"sweetest man I have ever met."" Prior to that, Mitch was also involved in an on-again, off-again relationship with Kaye, a newspaper reporter, who was played by David Hasselhoff's then wife, Pamela Bach. When Mitch was eight years old, he saw the film ""The Maltese Falcon"" and was inspired to one day become a private detective. However, lifeguarding was still his first love. The dream of being a detective came true in 1995 when Mitch started a detective agency with Garner. The agency became the focal point of the spinoff series ""Baywatch Nights"". The character of Mitch appeared concurrently on"
"Tom Conway Tom Conway (born Thomas Charles Sanders, 15 September 1904 – 22 April 1967) was a British film, television and radio actor remembered for playing private detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond and The Saint) and psychiatrists. Conway is perhaps best known for playing ""The Falcon"" in ten of the series' entries, taking over for his brother, George Sanders, in ""The Falcon's Brother"" (1942), in which they both starred. He is also well known for his appearance in several Val Lewton films. Conway was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His younger brother (b. 1906 d. 1972) was"
"both critics and audiences alike. Peter Falk delivered a more successful spoof the following year as ""Sam Diamond"" in Neil Simon's ""Murder by Death"". This was preceded by the spoof character ""Sam Diamond"" in the 1965 ""Addams Family"" episode ""Thing Is Missing"", portrayed by Tommy Farrell. In 2009, with the approval of the estate of Dashiell Hammett, the veteran detective-story writer Joe Gores published ""Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON"" with Alfred A. Knopf, the original publisher of Hammett's ""The Maltese Falcon"". Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of"
"In the 1929 detective novel ""The Maltese Falcon"", a small statuette provides both the book's eponymous title and its motive for intrigue. The name ""MacGuffin"" was coined by the English screenwriter Angus MacPhail and was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1930s. The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term ""MacGuffin"" and the technique with his 1935 film ""The 39 Steps"", an early example of the concept. Hitchcock explained the term ""MacGuffin"" in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University in New York: It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men on a train. One"
"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"
"these men were left alone. Giuseppe Montana Giuseppe Montana, (Agrigento, 8 October 1951 – Santa Flavia, 28 July 1985), was an Italian policeman assassinated by the Cosa Nostra. Commissioner of the Judicial police of Palermo, he was chief of the new created ""Sezione Catturandi"", which was responsible for the search of fugitives. In this role he gained great results, discovering Michele Greco's arsenal in 1983 and capturing Tommaso Spadaro (Giovanni Falcone's childhood friend), who became the ""boss"" of cigarette smuggling and drug trafficking. He collaborated with the ""San Michele maxi blitz"" of the Antimafia pool, taking part in the 475"
"in Verney carried over into the 20th century as part of the era's popular culture. He was referenced in Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel ""The Maltese Falcon"" as one of the people who possessed the jeweled bird. The title character of the 1940 swashbuckler film ""The Sea Hawk"", played by Errol Flynn, was inspired by the lives of both Verney and Sir Henry Mainwaring. He and Mainwaring were also among the real-life pirates chosen by Disney Imagineer Marc Davis to be portrayed in Disneyland's ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" amusement ride along with Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Charles Gibbs, and"
"Giuseppe Montana Giuseppe Montana, (Agrigento, 8 October 1951 – Santa Flavia, 28 July 1985), was an Italian policeman assassinated by the Cosa Nostra. Commissioner of the Judicial police of Palermo, he was chief of the new created ""Sezione Catturandi"", which was responsible for the search of fugitives. In this role he gained great results, discovering Michele Greco's arsenal in 1983 and capturing Tommaso Spadaro (Giovanni Falcone's childhood friend), who became the ""boss"" of cigarette smuggling and drug trafficking. He collaborated with the ""San Michele maxi blitz"" of the Antimafia pool, taking part in the 475 arrest orders. He continued to"
"way to prison and possible execution. Huston and Edeson crafted each scene to make sure the images, action and dialog blended effectively, sometimes shooting closeups of characters with other cast members acting with them off camera. Fred Sexton (June 3, 1907 – September 11, 1995) was an American artist and sculptor of the Maltese Falcon statuette prop for ""The Maltese Falcon."" During the 1930s and 1940s, Sexton was championed by ""Los Angeles Times"" art critic Arthur Millier, and his work was acquired by Los Angeles-area art collectors including actor Edward G. Robinson and movie director John Huston. Sexton also taught"
"Davis as Hellman. The Continental Op Sam Spade Nick and Nora Charles In 2011, magazine editor Andrew Gulli found fifteen previously unknown short stories by Dashiell Hammett in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (""The Maltese Falcon""), Nick and Nora Charles (""The Thin Man""), and the Continental Op (""Red Harvest"" and"
"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"
"and excellent performances, it's nevertheless enjoyably and quirkily funny, at least until just before the end, when a whole wedge of undigested plot exposition suddenly catches up with the action."" Satan Met a Lady Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis. The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel ""The Maltese Falcon"" by Dashiell Hammett, (original publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1929) which was previously filmed five years earlier, pre-code, under its original title directed by Roy Del Ruth and would be remade"
"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"
"double homage: first to Dashiell Hammett (""Miles Archer"" was the name of Sam Spade's murdered partner in ""The Maltese Falcon"" ), while Lew Wallace was the author of the novel """" (1880). ""The Galton Case"" is the eighth novel in the Lew Archer detective series written by Ross Macdonald and published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1959. The lead character is hired to find the Galton fortune's lost heir. Archer finds a series of murders, web of secrets and deception. From the back of the 1983 Bantam edition: Rich boy Anthony Galton had dropped out of sight more than"
"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"
"by Dashiell Hammett, commissioned by Darryl Zanuck at Warner Bros. for ""another original Sam Spade story,"" following the first film adaption of Hammett's ""The Maltese Falcon"". Hammett's commission for that treatment was for ""motion picture production...featuring the actor, William Powell."" Zanuck rejected the treatment, explaining that ""The finished story [had] none of qualifications of ""Maltese Falcon"", although the same character was in both stories."" Rights to the treatment reverted to Hammett, who reworked it, re-titling it ""On the Make"" and renaming the detective character Gene Richmond. After further re-work, and another change of the detective's name (to T. N. Thompson),"
"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"
"The Falcon unravel this mystery without taking a bullet? Will the mafia have their plan thwarted? Can Goldie find himself a bride to reduce his level of income tax?"" The Falcon in San Francisco The Falcon in San Francisco is a 1945 American crime and mystery film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Tom Conway, Rita Corday and Edward Brophy, who played the recurring role of ""Goldie"" Locke. The film was the 11th in The Falcon series of detective films, and the eighth featuring Conway as the amateur sleuth. ""The Falcon in San Francisco"" was the final film in"
"called upon to solve the murder of the mail-order private eye’s nutty milkman (Gautier), who it is discovered had a secret life where he practiced various animal fetishes. The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery is a 1975 comedy-mystery film starring former ""Bowery Boys"" members Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall, Jackie Coogan, and Joyce Van Patten. The film is a parody of the 1941 film noir ""The Maltese Falcon"" starring Humphrey Bogart. The cast also includes Barbara Harris, Anjanette Comer, Will Geer, Sorrell Booke, Vincent Gardenia, Nita Talbot and Nicholas Colasanto. The film was written"
"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"
"Henry Simmons Henry Oswald Simmons, Jr. (born July 1, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for portraying NYPD Detective Baldwin Jones on the ABC police drama ""NYPD Blue"", from 2000–2005, and as Agent Alphonso ""Mack"" MacKenzie on ABC's ""Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."". Simmons was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Aurelia, a school teacher, and Henry Simmons, Sr., an IRS Revenue Officer. He is one of three children, including his twin sister, and another sister. Simmons earned a basketball scholarship to Franklin Pierce University, where he earned a business degree. While attending Franklin Pierce University, he experimented in"