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# Maltese Falcon

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.com          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

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## Customer Reviews

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    Outstanding remastering into High Definition
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2023*

They did a great job of perfectly remastering this classic film into High Definition!  Of course the movie itself is one of Bogart’s best performances.  If you enjoy suspenseful WHO DONE ITS, this classic Detective Movie is a must.  I highly recommend it.

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    MOVIE: 5.0 • VIDEO: 4.5 • AUDIO: 3
  

*by C***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2017*

FORMAT: Blu-Ray  UPC: 8-83929-11825-0  RELEASED: 2010-10-05TITLE:  The Maltese Falcon (1941) • NR • 1:40:32  Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet  John Huston (Director)  The movie that many film historians consider to be the very first example of "film noir"! (I personally DON'T agree with that assessment, as there are, in my opinion, MANY earlier examples of film noir — such as, Bogie's own 
  
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     from 1937.) Be that as it may, this is still an EXCELLENT movie — with its collection of odd-ball and/or duplicitous characters, with their various (and, nefarious) motivations, all plotting against one another in order to achieve some nebulous goal! This is the movie that cemented Humphrey Bogart as a superstar actor — and, it also changed John Huston from an erstwhile highly-respected screenwriter (and VERY small-time actor, on the side) into a VERY highly-respected screenwriter, and a MUCH sought-after director (with a slightly-more-frequent bit playing acting career, on the side).  Of the MANY great things about this movie, one of the most important, in my opinion, is that EVERYBODY is perfectly cast — and, consequently, EVERY performance is pitch-perfect (Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, speaking of just two great examples of that aforementioned perfect casting, very nearly steal the movie). Another important aspect of this movie is its brilliant dialog — sometimes, while re-watching this movie, for the who-knows-how-many-time, I forget about following the plot and just absorb the wordplay between the characters (with the many snide remarks and sly innuendos). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  See the other reviews for more detail and/or other opinions regarding the plot of the movie.VIDEO:  1.37:1 • B&W • 1080p • VC-1 (28.6 Mbps)  Let's get the bad news out of the way off the top: Those of you that have seen Warners' glorious blu-ray presentation of 
  
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    , and expect that SAME level of visual presentation here, with this release of "The Maltese Falcon" will be disappointed — but, only slightly so. While this movie's image has MANY of the same VERY positive visual attributes as "Casablanca" (namely: excellent contrast and gray-scale, great sharpness and detail, and a total (or, nearly so) absence of artifacts such as black specks, white dots, hair-lines or dropped frames), it also has some negative visual attributes of its own — that were non-existent (or, nearly so) in "Casablanca" (namely: a pervasive, ever-so-slight softness in MANY scenes, and a very few scenes that were overly "contrasty", with very limited gray-scale [yes, I know that film noir is known for its stark, high-contrast cinematography, but these scenes didn't match the appearance of the rest of the movie, and, further, look like they may have originated from less-than-pristine source elements]). OK, that's the "bad" news. Now, for the "good" news: This is still an EXCELLENT transfer to blu-ray. As a person who has owned this movie first on VHS tape and then later on Laser Disc, before purchasing this blu-ray version, I can tell you that this version is a visual revelation, and it looks FANTASTIC! Only a hyper-picky, so-called "videophile" could possibly have a "reason" to condemn the picture quality of this release — the rest of us will simply count our blessings and enjoy the show.AUDIO:  DTS-HD Master Audio Mono (48 KHz, 24-bit)  Again, just like with the audio presentation of "Casablanca", the fine sound engineers at Warner Home Video have done extensive clean-up work on the film's soundtrack, because there are no pops, bumps or hiss to speak of. Also, the dialog is very clear and natural sounding, with all voices being clearly defined and easily understood. However, the transfer's dynamic range is fairly limited, and there isn't any deep bass nor any top-end to speak of (though, the musical score does sound better than one would expect under the circumstances). Otherwise, considering the age of the source elements and the fact that this is a monophonic, dialog-driven movie from the early 1940s, this film's soundtrack has VERY good sound quality.EXTRAS: Commentary (by Bogart biographer Eric Lax)  'Making Of' Video (The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird [SD])  Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart [SD]  Warner Night at the Movies (interactive featurette [SD])  Gag Reel/Bloopers (Breakdowns of 1941 [SD])  Makeup Tests [SD]  Trailers ('The Maltese Falcon' and 'Satan Met a Lady')  Three Radio Show Adaptations of 'The Maltese Falcon'  [SD = Standard Definition]  None of the extras were reviewed.

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    Great noir film
  

*by M***  on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2023*

I read the book 1st; over and over on Audible (plug for Audible) and although the movie was good, the book was better. Chapter 13 was my favorite where the existence of the Maltese Falcon is explained.

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