Shandor reacts to THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) - FIRST TIME WATCHING!!!
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
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In today’s video I’m watching the 1941 film noir classic „The Maltese Falcon”.
The movie stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Gladys George and Sydney Greenstreet.
Have fun!
Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:37 Movie reaction
28:14 Closing thoughts & saying goodbye 
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When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it - a very famous cinematic line and scene.
"The Big Sleep" is another great Bogart film noir.
Yes he would love it.
The iconic line about the Maltese Falcon: "The stuff that dreams are made of."
This was Sydney Greenstreet's (The Fat Man) FIRST film role after years on the stage. He was reportedly very nervous and kept asking if he was doing all right!!
I think he was! :)
Really like this movie. The action is delivered so quick. All the actors deliver Class A performances. Great dialog.
You must watch The Big Sleep. The best Bogart film of this film noir genre in my opinion and contains all the elements you like about the The Maltese Falcon.
"Key Largo" is a great one too .... Especially with Edward G. Robinson as the bad Guy! It's my Favourite Bogie & Bacall Movie!
Totally agree. Also, To have and have not.
Teh bIg Sleep in now on my channel! It was amazing!
"You DO sell books, hmm?"
"The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."
Such an iconic noir film. This is the stereotypical, textbook example of a noir film.
Fun Fact: Film debut of Sydney Greenstreet. He had been working as a prominent stage actor for 40 years.
The Falcon Fact: Three (out of the eight made) of the statuettes still exist and are conservatively valued at over $1 million each. This makes them some of the most valuable film props ever made; indeed, each is now considerably worth more than what it cost to make.
Spade's Lighter Fact: The unusual cigarette lighter that graces the desk of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a Ronson Touch-Tip table model. Made by the Ronson Co. from 1935-51, it is a classic example of the "art deco" style that dominated that era. Originals are so sought after by collectors that at least one company now exists that is entirely dedicated to restoring original examples to full working order.
Accommodation Fact: At 357 pounds, 60-year-old British newcomer Sydney Greenstreet was so large that the studio had to specially manufacture his entire wardrobe for the role of Kasper Gutman. The chair in which Greenstreet sits while talking with Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in the hotel room was also specially made for him; the chairs the prop department was going to use weren't wide enough to accommodate Greenstreet's girth nor strong enough to support his weight.
Something key to Sam Spade's character is that he is truely only governed by his personal code. He does what he feels is necessary - regardless of social conventions, laws or even feelings. But he keeps to his code, even while he's playing the angles.
The greatest performance from the greatest movie star of all time.
I recommend "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre" (1948). Humphrey Bogart's first Oscar win. A great American Western and one of the best films ever made.
Some other 40s classics to see:
'Citizen Kane'
'Double Indemnity'
'His Girl Friday'
'It's A Wonderful Life'
'The Third Man'
'The Big Sleep'
'Notorious'
Directed by John Huston, a fantastic filmaker. He also made "Treasure of Sierra Madre" and "The Man Who Would Be King" and many others. Several starring Bogart. (he made a couple of dogs too). His father and daughter and himself have all won Oscars. I strongly suggest the two movies I mentioned above, and also one he acted in called "Chinatown'
Chinatown is my favorite all-time movie. Extremely worth seeing.
Great reaction to my favorite film noir movie. Check out Bogart's best performance in The Treasure of Sierra Madre directed by the same man who directed The Maltese Falcon, John Huston. Huston was a genius director and Bogart was one of his favorite actors. They also did The African Queen together. In that movie Bogart won the Oscar for Best Actor.
Great choice. One of my favorites. I have a Maltese falcon on my bookshelf.
The great dialogue comes straight from the original book by Dashiel Hammett (1930), and the film tracks the book very closely. It is to screenwriter-director John Huston’s credit that he retained so much of the book’s dialogue rather than changing it.
Fun Fact: Hammett was a real-life detective with the Pinkerton agency for 5 years, which is why his stories have so much authenticity.
The man playing Captain Jacoby, who staggers into Spade's office is Walter Huston, the (famous) actor father of the director.
One of the first film noirs. One of the greatest casts (along with CASABLANCA) of all-time.
Sydney Greenstreet was one of only three Hollywood actors in his day made entirely out of butter.
Parkay.
There was no film noir when this film was made, it created the genre.
All of the main actors were really big names in their day. Bogey was married to Lauren Bacall, she was also big, worked with Marilyn Munroe, in How to marry a millionaire. Another great name was Rosalind Russell, with Marilyn in Some Like it Hot. Rita Hayworth, in Gilda, played in the Shawshank Redemption. A great movie with Marilyn in it is called We're Not Married.
Just want to say keep up the fantastic work, and keep going. Judging by your list so far, you are in for the ride of your life. There are so many amazing movies yet to see
Bogart never did a bad film. He was so much of the character he was portraying in every film.
Peter Lore's last name is pronounced, "Lor - E"
Great reaction / review, as always.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
@Gort-Marvin0Martian Humphrey's performance in 'The Two Mrs Carrolls' was VERY bad; probably the only stinker though.
@@crose7412 Maybe that's the way he was asked to do the portrayal.
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian Maybe but it was dreadful either way.
@@crose7412 Haven't seen that one. I will check it out.
@@Gort-Marvin0MartianI wouldn't bother!
This is one of my top five all times favorites. It made Bogie a star. It also catapulted John Huston to fame as this was the first movie he directed (he also adapted/rewrote the script) after starting his career as a writer. Noir does not get any better than this movie. Before this one, Bogie played almost nothing but "bad guys". Here, he perfects the anti-hero loner gumshoe character which we see again and again in noir films. Huston's father, actor Walter Huston, does a cameo as Captain Jacoby. Seven years later, both Hustons will win an Oscar for Treasure Of The Sierra Madre in which Bogie also stars. 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎
Then Huston played a major character in Chinatown, perhaps the best noir of the latter 20th century.
This film is not just a film noir. It is usually credited as the first film noir. It and the lesser known "I Wake Up Screaming" made nearly at the same time (Elisha Cook Jr is in both) pretty well established the conventions of the genre. With your appreciation of photography, you owe it to yourself to see the latter film.
What’s your top five?
Less than 7 years
Great, great film showing that remakes aren’t always a bad idea if the filmmaker has something new to say with the material. This is the third version of the original story, the first (also titled “The Maltese Falcon”) is middling and the second (“Satan Met a Lady”) weak, but once gotten right as it is here there is no longer a need to revisit it.
The acting is top drawer. Bogie had been slowly working his way up, but this film paired with his previous one “High Sierra” (an excellent film) secured his leading man cred, the next year’s Casablanca turned the trick for him as a romantic lead.
Mary Astor had been a star in silent film and made an effortless transition to sound but became embroiled in a huge scandal in the 30’s when her private and quite vividly graphic diaries were made public by her estranged husband in a custody battle for their daughter damaging her career. She was relegated to B films but worked her way back up and this film renewed her lustre, she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this same year for “The Great Lie” (she’s brilliant in that film as well) but this performance surely fed into her win.
Sydney Greenstreet plays such a great villain, urbane and humorous but underlyingly threatening (this was his first film) and became rather typed as such during his brief film career but had a long stage career behind him at this point where his reputation had been built on light comedy.
He and Peter Lorre (by the way he pronounced his last name Lor-E) became something of a team for a period of time after this appearing in nine films together in total, though they were really only paired in six of those.
Another great Bogart noir to seek out is 1950’s “In a Lonely Place”. An outstanding picture if extremely dark, even for noir.
Great reaction, as usual. I would love to see your response to "The Big Sleep" ... the plot has more twists and turns than Mulholland Drive ... excellent script ... fantastic conclusion ... my favorite Bogart film.
I thought about it! I'll definitely get to it!
Love Bogey! Another legendary noir classic, but not with Bogart, is Double Indemnity --- In A Quite Place is another great, somewhat unique Bogart noir most people neglect mentioning for some inexplicable reason.
I’ve read the Dashiell Hammett novel “The Maltese Falcon” and can tell you that John Huston’s 1941 film follows the novel virtually word-for-word of dialogue. You’ll never find a more faithful film adaptation.
Wow, that's a really difficult thing to pull off!
Orson Welles Touch of Evil. And - The Third Man (which has Orson Welles in it).
I recommend Now Voyager if you want to see another excellent film starring some of the actors from Casablanca.
Fun fact: The man who staggers into Spade's office and dies with the falcon in hand 19:58 is the director's father, Walter Huston. 😂
That's awesome!
Even the facial characteristics of the characters are different than they are today.
The book was written in 1930. $50,000 in 1930 would buy the same as one million dollars today.
Peter Lorre's name is pronounced like Laurie.
Why did they block the most famous lines of the movie "What is it?" Answer "The thing that dreams are made of!"
Now that you've seen both Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, you should watch The Cheap Detective.
I would agree, but only after I get the papers.
This is the first of the genre… the first film noir….
Film noirs have dominated every decade since...The best are Chinatown (1974?) and LA Confidential (1997), both of which you will enjoy. In fact, the best noir of the 1980s might have been Who Framed Roger Rabbit, though very different in style!
I LOVE LA Confidential! I haven't seen the other two yet!
This movie is so great it got me into the Humphrey bogart bandwagon
No wonder!
The script is based on the novel from the master of detective stories: Dashiel Hammett. He was a victim of McCarthy and died poor and nearly forgotten. The fame for dective stories of this kind went to Raymond Chandler for his PI Philip Marlowe. Bogart also impersonated Marlow in the classic The Big Sleep.
If you're intrested in Dashiell Hammett I recomend the film The thin man (1934). The screenplay is from Hammett and it's to this day one of my favorite detictive/comedy films.
your 'pacing' commet make me laugh-i've watched many reaction videos and many hosts complain how slow the pacing is, but in this movie they complain it's too fast!-lol
The first two attempts made of Dashiel Hammett's book were miserable. Don't bother with them. A waste of your time. John Huston understood the story, the characters, the whole enchilada of this second remake.
A cast of flawed characters. Very unusual for 1941.
LorrE.
Shandor react don't do it when you wanna go do it!