Sunday 3 October 2021

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon adapted by John Huston from the Dashiell Hammett novel and starring Humphrey Bogart premiered 80 years ago today.

The mother of all MacGuffins, the Falcon doesn’t have a real provenance like the Ark of the Covenant and doesn’t drive the plot through its usefulness like the Death Star plans, it’s valuable purely because it’s valuable.

It’s actually the third version of the book to be filmed - I’ve seen one of the others and it’s proof that sometimes a remake is a really good idea.

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