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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre Director: John Huston Rating: Features: Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Black & White Running Time: 101 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 Release Date: October 5, 2010 Theatrical Release Date: 1941 Studio: Warner Home Video
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A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade Humphrey Bogart wants to find out why--and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr. joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen from Dashiell Hammett's novel and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards00Best Picture, Supporting Actor Greenstreet and Screenplay Huston--catapulted Bogart to stardom and launched Huston’s directorial career. All with a bird and a bang!
Still the tightest, sharpest, and most cynical of Hollywood's official deathless classics, bracingly tough even by post-Tarantino standards. Humphrey Bogart is Dashiell Hammett's definitive private eye, Sam Spade, struggling to keep his hard-boiled cool as the double-crosses pile up around his ankles. The plot, which dances all around the stolen Middle Eastern statuette of the title, is too baroque to try to follow, and it doesn't make a bit of difference. The dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Hammett, is delivered with whip-crack speed and sneering ferocity, as Bogie faces off against Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, fends off the duplicitous advances of Mary Astor, and roughs up a cringing "gunsel" played by Elisha Cook Jr. It's an action movie of sorts, at least by implication: the characters always seem keyed up, right on the verge of erupting into violence. This is a turning-point picture in several respects: John Huston The African Queen made his directorial debut here in 1941, and Bogart, who had mostly played bad guys, was a last-minute substitution for George Raft, who must have been kicking himself for years afterward. This is the role that made Bogart a star and established his trend-setting and still influential antihero persona. --David Chute
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