The Maltese Falcon (1940)
Directed by: John Huston
Screen Play by: John Huston
Based on novel by: Dashiell Hammett
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Existential Speech
Joel Cairo - code for being gay
Movie Discussion
- Spade doesn't care about Archer or his wife
- No real good person in the film
- Dridget's a bit confused in her actions, caught in her own web
- Love between Spade and Bridget at the end seemed to come out of left field
- Spade is self-serving
- Music brought along a heightened sense of suspense
- Bogart: Maltese Falcon vs Casablanca - both jaded but one has a moral code (Casablanca)
- Cairo: homosexual-code: perfumed handkerchief, hooked cane play Clip
- Interesting names: Cairo, Gutman, O'Shanase, Spade