The Maltese Falcon (7/10) Movie CLIP - There's Only One Maltese Falcon (1941) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Kasper (Sydney Greenstreet) explains to Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) that he's turning him in as the fall guy for the Maltese Falcon. He then warns Sam (Humphrey Bogart) to be careful in dealings with Brigid (Mary Astor).

FILM DESCRIPTION:
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial debut, got it right, simply by adhering as closely as possible to the original. Taking over from a recalcitrant George Raft, Humphrey Bogart achieved true stardom as Sam Spade, a hard-boiled San Francisco private eye who can be as unscrupulous as the next guy but also adheres to his own personal code of honor. Into the offices of the Spade & Archer detective agency sweeps a Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor), who offers a large retainer to Sam and his partner Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) if they'll protect her from someone named Floyd Thursby. The detectives believe neither Miss Wonderly nor her story, but they believe her money. Since Archer saw her first, he takes the case -- and later that evening he is shot to death, as is the mysterious Thursby. Miss Wonderly's real name turns out to be Brigid O'Shaughnessey, and, as the story continues, Sam is also introduced to the effeminate Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) and the fat, erudite Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut). It turns out that Brigid, Cairo and Gutman are all international scoundrels, all involved in the search for a foot-high, jewel-encrusted statuette in the shape of a falcon. Though both Cairo and Gutman offer Spade small fortunes to find the "black bird," they are obviously willing to commit mayhem and murder towards that goal: Gutman, for example, drugs Spade and allows his "gunsel" Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) to kick and beat the unconscious detective. This classic film noir detective yarn gets better with each viewing, which is more than can be said for the first two Maltese Falcons and the ill-advised 1975 "sequel" The Black Bird.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1941)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Elisha Cook Jr., Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor
Director: John Huston
Producers: Henry Blanke, Hal B. Wallis
Screenwriters: John Huston, Dashiell Hammett

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[ImYourHuckleberry_]

Lorre's face when greenstreet admits he palmed it. Priceless.

[Progger]

I love the look on Sam's face when Wilmer looks over at him. That slight smirk. It's like he's saying without words, "I screwed ya over, buddy."

[Slasher]

While I’m a child from the 60’s. I absolutely love these classic films. The scripts and actors were so unique in their own right. They just don’t make movies like this anymore. Almost makes me wish I had grown up during the 40’-50’s.

[Rixdog]

"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son, well, if you loose a son its possible to get another..." One of the best lines in the film.  And there were many.

[PaulGoodeK]

One heck of a movie -- it holds up under repeated viewings and even improves. Bogart, Astor, and director Huston were each at the top of their game, and that's saying something.

[Joe_Parmesan]

It'd be creepy to wake up and see a room full of people just staring at you.

[KC-fbql]

‘Something I’d expect from somebody Wilmer’s age.’ 😂 i find this hilarious for some reason.

[janibeg]

one of the best parts of the Maltese Falcon

[robbiereilly]

I'm reading the novel now. It's amazing how close it is to the John Huston classic film. Wonderful, as the Fat Man would say.

[scottdinges]

Peter Lorre what I'm going to do to you!!"

[lukasmiller]

Even though Mr. Wilmer is a murderer, I feel so sorry for him in this scene because it shows how sad his situation was. He was probably a mentally ill guy that Mr. Gutman picked off the streets because he saw some use in him and like the emperor in Star Wars he only kept him until he was expendable despite his pretentious professions of fatherly affection. “I’m sorry to lose you, but it’s always possible to get another son. But there’s only one Maltese Falcon.” How about there’s only one Mr. Wilmer?

[JP]

Pause it at 0:07... reminds me a Daffy Duck cartoon

[gardeniasandfalcons]

Notice how much Bogie and Lorre are smoking in just this one scene -- they are defying the request of one of the producers to cut down on the smoking in the movie. They were both rebels.

[Kemidov]

Thanks for this clip. Please note that the audio volume is abnormally low; have to turn way-up just to make-out the dialogue.

[donaldwagner]

Sydney Green street is based off of the kingpin character

[sistersamich]

LOOK AT CARIOS FACE THEY WERE BOYFRIENDS