tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705940625481143611.post8811987346869313796..comments2024-03-25T11:17:18.130-07:00Comments on Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and The Wild West: SATAN MET A LADY, the whacked-out Maltese Falcon (1936)Evan Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705940625481143611.post-8697951517993061742017-05-22T09:25:13.599-07:002017-05-22T09:25:13.599-07:00After at least a half dozen attempts by this Warre...After at least a half dozen attempts by this Warren William fan over the years, I must sadly pronounce this piece of garbage Utterly Unwatchable. Stephen Mertzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531248810283345577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705940625481143611.post-46239156667179141702017-05-22T09:09:44.218-07:002017-05-22T09:09:44.218-07:00Speaking of the "Hammett-free dialogue,"...Speaking of the "Hammett-free dialogue," the third version was almost the opposite. John Huston received a lot of praise for the literate dialogue, none of which he wrote himself. The only significant line in the movie that was not in the novel was at the end, when Spade says the Falcon is "the stuff that dreams are made of." And that phrase was not original; it's from Shakespeare's The Tempest. <br /><br />BTW, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) was RKO's attempt to jump on the Thin Man band wagon. It even starred William Powell. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705940625481143611.post-73695849771576391542017-05-22T08:48:25.879-07:002017-05-22T08:48:25.879-07:00My guess would be that your theory is correct. Tha...My guess would be that your theory is correct. That is, they made it tongue-in-cheek to emulate The Thin Man. <br /><br />I don't consider it a bad movie, it just isn't particularly good, and it suffers by comparison to the Bogart classic. <br /><br />TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686814973788356726noreply@blogger.com