We're screening 'The Maltese Falcon' on Saturday 30th August at 6.30pm in the Blackpool Community Centre.
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut and based on the 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett, one of Americas great hard-boiled detective novelists.
It stars Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, in a role that came to define his subsequent screen persona, a tough, taciturn, and dogged investigator who operates according to his own merciless moral code.
The film follows Spade as he sets out to discover his partner’s killer before being drawn into a race to discover the whereabouts of a mysterious statue of a bird. The notoriously convoluted plot that twists and turns on one of the most famous MacGuffin's in cinematic history, serves as a backdrop to a succession of scenes as Spade takes on the louche Cairo, played by Peter Lorre, the ‘Fat Man’ played by Sydney Greenstreet, and his femme fatale client, Brigid O’Shaughnessy, played by Mary Astor, in this stylish, entertaining, and eminently quotable tale.
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