The Maltese Falcon 85th Anniversary

Gotta love Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, a wacky duo bumbling around the world for decades, killing random people because they want a dumb bird really bad

Patrick Willems

there’s a scene where humphrey bogart rolls, lights, and takes a drag off a cigarette and then gets held at gunpoint, disarms the man holding him at gunpoint, punches him in the face hard enough to knock him out cold, and then goes through all of his belongings all while…

eely 👻

Here's what I love about film noir: nobody gets to be an angel. No sentimentality, no melodrama, just tough characters who quip their way in and out of unsavory situations. Needless to say, The Maltese Falcon ticks every box on my list. And it isn't just a film noir; it's…

Rida

They don't name fat guys "mr. gutman" anymore

Karsten

“When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it” make crime films sassy again

Justin LaLiberty

i like when the guy says "you seem to have a smooth explanation for everything" and humpty bobo says "what, do you want me to learn to stutter?"

cameron fetter

An unfamiliar time. Men were men, dames were dames, and smoking was good for you.

Jizzmonkey

An essential work of noir cinema for those who want to understand the genre. The film is adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel, and presents as well as its origin, a winding plot, full of twists and ambiguous characters, which symbolize the dark morality of a time when…

noen

Always thought this was about a pet falcon owned by Leonard Maltin. Oh well.

Matt Singer