The 1940 version of The Maltese Falcon turned 80 this week. “There’s only one Maltese Falcon” I have a suspicion it’s not the one in my study.
The 1940 version of The Maltese Falcon turned 80 this week. “There’s only one Maltese Falcon” I have a suspicion it’s not the one in my study.
Passage To Marseille is consciously a successor to Casablanca, sharing many cast and crew members, most notably Humphrey Bogart (this time cast as a French citizen, which is helpful to be told because he makes no attempt at an accent of any type). And though wartime uncertainties and evocative exotic cities are held in common, …
Albert (Aldo Ray) : Even the girl herself called us her angels. Joseph (Humphrey Bogart) : We’re no angels. It’s a Christmas movie.
Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame star in the noir-est or noir movies In A Lonely Place. Not a shred of sentimentality. Bleak seems to bright a descriptor. But compelling. “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” Humphrey Bogart as Dixon …
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