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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros. Film Noir directed by John Huston and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, with Huston's screenplay using most of the book's original dialogue. It stars Humphrey Bogart as Hardboiled Detective Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his Femme Fatale client, Sydney Greenstreet (in his film debut) as the sinister "fat man" Kasper Gutman, and Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr. as Gutman's Ambiguously Gay sidekicks. The story concerns Spade's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert, and Entertainment Weekly, and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain as the first major work of Film Noir. (Though today, movie historians generally consider the first noir to be Stranger on the Third Floor, released one year earlier.) The film was John Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.Actually the third screen version of Hammett's novel, which had previously been filmed in 1931 as The Maltese Falcon and more loosely in 1936 as Satan Met a Lady.The movie's success was big enough that Classic Radio Drama, The Adventures of Sam Spade, was made from 1946-1951, starring Howard Duff doing a credible Bogart impression. | |
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Fall Guy | |
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Fall Guy: Sam Spade turns the criminals against each other by only agreeing to hand over the Falcon if Wilmer takes the fall for the murder of Sam's partner. | |
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Plot-Triggering Death | |
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Plot-Triggering Death: The murder of Spade's partner Archer sets the plot in motion. | |
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Terrible Trio | |
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Terrible Trio: Gutman is the leader of the three crooks, and Cairo and Wilmer are his enforcers. Cairo is implied to be the smarter of the two, but Wilmer is the one who actually kills two people during the events of the story. | |
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Non-Specifically Foreign | |
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Non-Specifically Foreign: Joel Cairo has three different passports (which are probably all fake), a generic name (alias?) which doesn't betray his ultimate origins, and a bizarre accent which swings between French, Russian, German, and whatnot. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo / Dead Star Walking: Walter Huston, John Huston's father and a big movie star, appears here as Capt. Jacobi, the Almost Dead Guy who delivers the Falcon. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: General Kemidov, from whom the Maltese Falcon was stolen. Floyd Thursby, one of the thieves after the Maltese Falcon, who was originally Brigid's conspirator and is killed offscreen after the first scene before he ever makes an appearance. A decent amount of time is spent unraveling what happened to him. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: During the Dénouement, the elevator gate resembles jail cell bars for the Femme Fatale. | |
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Wicked Cultured | |
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Wicked Cultured: Gutman. | |
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Knight in Sour Armour: Spade. | |
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Hitler Cam | |
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Hitler Cam: Gutman is introduced from a very low camera angle, to emphasize not only emphasize his girth but power over the situation. | |
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Fat and Skinny | |
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Fat and Skinny: Kasper Gutman and Joel Cairo. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Sam Spade. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: Rhea Gutman, Mr Gutman's daughter, and the famous Flitcraft Parable, which is one of the most oft-quoted parts of the text. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: Spade is less morally ambiguous in the film than in the book. He doesn't strip Brigid to search for the missing money. In general, he's less aggressive and cruel in actions and speech. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Brigid O'Shaughnessy. As Sam Spade says at the end of the film, he wants more than anything else to believe her version of events, and that's why he doesn't: because it's what she's been counting on with everyone. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The bad guys are exposed and rounded up, but Spade turns over O'Shaughnessy, with whom he's fallen in love, to the cops to avenge his partner. And it wasn't even the real Falcon to begin with. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Brigid wears at least four furs in the movie: a silver fox wrap, a Persian lamb coat, a stole of sables, and a mink coat. Mrs. Archer wears a black fox muff and a black fox hat with a veil, as part of her mourning clothes. | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: The movie dodges the Hays Code's rule against "sex perversion" by only subtly implying the homosexuality of Wilmer Cook and Joel Cairo. Cairo kisses his phallic cane lovingly at one point. Spade refers derogatorily to Wilmer as "the gunsel", both in the movie and in the book. "Gunsel" was Yiddish slang for a a male passive sexual partner, but not many people knew that. As the slang was all but forgotten, it was re-imagined as slang for a gunslinger or a gun-toting hitman.note In Yiddish, the suffix -el is also a diminutive, so given Wilmer's unprepossessing stature, it's easy to think Spade's calling him a "little gun". | |
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A MacGuffin Full of Money | |
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A MacGuffin Full of Money: The Maltese Falcon looks like an ordinary statue, but only a few people know that it holds gems under its skin. | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: Kasper Gutman. Bonus points for his being referred to "The Fat Man". | |
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Hardboiled Detective | |
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Hardboiled Detective: Sam Spade is one of the codifiers. He is cynical but determined, has a prickly relationship with law enforcement, keeps his cards close to his chest regarding whose side he is really on in the conflict over the Falcon, and is seldom seen without a cigar or cigarette in his mouth and a drink in his hand. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Kasper Gutman is almost always cheerful and polite. He's so amiable and good-humored that you almost don't notice that he's a total sociopath. Joel Cairo as well. He even asks Sam to "please" keep his hands on the back of his head while holding him at gunpoint. | |
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Guns Akimbo | |
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Guns Akimbo: Wilmer has two guns and occasionally has one in each hand. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The opening crawl states that the Knights Templar of Malta created the falcon in 1539. The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312. (The director had probably confused the Knights Templar with the Knights of Malta, a separate organization that is still around today.) All the more glaring because Gutman mentions the correct order while explaining the Falcon's history to Spade in the film proper. | |
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Smoking Is Cool | |
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Smoking Is Cool: As in the book, Spade is seen rolling a cigarette in nearly every scene in which he appears (including his very first scene), and the half-smoked cigarette dangling from his lips is one of the defining parts of his image as the classic Hardboiled Detective. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Can matters of the heart override one's sense of justice? | |
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Gayngster | |
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Gayngster: Implied with Wilmer and Cairo, though more subtly than in the book. This trope is quite common in Film Noir. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: Spade does not strip Brigid to search for the missing bill, since this scene could not be filmed under The Hays Code. | |
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Almost Dead Guy | |
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Almost Dead Guy: Captain Jacobi, who comes staggering into Spade's office with the Falcon before expiring. | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: Used in several of Spade's phone conversations. | |
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It Must Be Mine! | |
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It Must Be Mine!: Most of the characters will go to any lengths, including murder, to get the Falcon. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Gutman" is fat, "Cairo" is from abroad, and "Spade" never stops digging for the truth. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Joel Cairo. | |
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Schiff One-Liner | |
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Schiff One-Liner: "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of." This is one of the few famous quotes from the film that is not a line from the novel. | |
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I Reject Your Reality | |
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I Reject Your Reality: Gutman and Cairo would rather believe Kemidov is a brilliant schemer than think that the Falcon is nothing more than a worthless dingus that they have spent their entire lives (and lots of money, and many dastardly acts) getting. The movie leaves open whether or not this is the actual reality. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Spade's last line is a slightly mangled quote from The Tempest. | |
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Every Man Has His Price | |
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Every Man Has His Price: | |
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MockGuffin | |
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MockGuffin: The eponymous statue. It's not the real Maltese Falcon (if, indeed, there ever was a real Maltese Falcon), but a copy made of lead. | |
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Decoy Damsel | |
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Decoy Damsel: Brigid O'Shaughnessy. | |
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| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8b442f50 | type |
Did Not Get the Girl | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8b442f50 | comment |
Did Not Get the Girl: Though he has fallen in love with Brigid, Spade turns her over to the police for murdering Archer, his partner. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8b442f50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8b442f50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8b442f50 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8d8cfcf1 | type |
Dame with a Case | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8d8cfcf1 | comment |
Dame with a Case: Probably the Trope Codifier. In the opening scene, private detective Sam Spade is sitting at his desk, rolling a cigarette. He is shortly told by his secretary Effie that a girl wishes to see him - and that she is worth seeing just for the sake of her looks. In walks the well-dressed Ruth Wonderly, who claims that her sister is missing and is involved with a certain man. He and his partner, Miles Archer, agree to take her case. The next morning, though, Spade learns that Archer has been killed. Moreover, when Spade next sees Ruth, she is calling herself Brigid O'Shaughnessy and is breeding distrust. The story develops from there. She is eventually revealed to be one of the antagonists and the murderer of Sam's partner. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8d8cfcf1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8d8cfcf1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8d8cfcf1 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Wilmer is set to be the fall guy by the other crooks. He was a Jerkass the entire time. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8fb244bd | type |
Replaced with Replica | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8fb244bd | comment |
Replaced with Replica: The bad guys finally get their grips on the eponymous falcon statue, only to find that it is a worthless replica, not the golden statue encrusted with jewels that they've been hunting for years. They think this means that General Kemidov tricked them and made off with the bird before the events of the film. Sam, however, is obviously skeptical that the real statue ever existed in the first place. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8fb244bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8fb244bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_8fb244bd | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_90b66e22 | type |
Femme Fatale | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Femme Fatale: Brigid. It doesn't work on Spade though, to the point where it's almost a Defied Trope; no matter how much he loves her, he's ultimately smart enough to realise that he can never trust her and that she'll betray him in a second if she thinks its to her advantage. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_90b66e22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_90b66e22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_90b66e22 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_916c72b3 | type |
Rule of Symbolism | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: The Maltese Falcon itself is rumored to be a solid gold statue encrusted with jewels hiding under a coat of black enamel. Gutman is willing to pay huge sums of money for it because he knows he can receive even more in exchange. The Falcon's backstory is long and convoluted, involving Knights Templar, Charles V of Spain, and a tribute made of jewels. It also doesn't matter one bit. The backstory adds to the "thrilling" part of the story, but in actuality, it's ridiculous. Lots of suspense is built around the falcon, and it's not actually seen until almost the end of the movie. The film runs 1 hour and 41 minutes, and we see the Falcon around 1 hour 27 minutes, barely ten minutes before the credits. The newspaper is torn from the bird like a sort of striptease, and Gutman caresses his treasure, except... the falcon was fake. So, in a way, the Falcon was a MacGuffin bringing the entire cast together. When Sam Spade says that the Maltese Falcon is "the stuff that dreams are made of," he's alluding to the fact that it's insubstantial (worthless) and to the fact that everywhere the Maltese Falcon goes, death follows it. If the curly hair, the gardenia-scented calling card, or Cairo briefly touching Spade's rear end when he frisks him doesn't tip you off that Cairo's gay, he also has his umbrella. When we first meet Joel Cairo, he makes himself at home in Spade's office, and he appears to use the cane handle of his umbrella to flirt with Spade, or to feel out what the other man's sexuality might be. Cairo fiddles with the handle, strokes it, and even holds it up to his lips in a way it's amazing got past the censors. A nice way to indicate just who's side he's on. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_916c72b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_916c72b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_916c72b3 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_926c5119 | type |
Detective Patsy | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_926c5119 | comment |
Detective Patsy: Brigid initially went to Spade and Archer on a pretense to get Thursby into a fight, thereby either getting him killed or slapping him with murder. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_926c5119 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_926c5119 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_926c5119 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_92c04b83 | type |
Stolen MacGuffin Reveal | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_92c04b83 | comment |
Stolen MacGuffin Reveal: This is one of the interpretations. The other is that the Falcon was a MockGuffin since the very beginning. Notice that Gutman, Cairo and O'Shaughnessy immediately bought the first version, such is the power of the falcon over them. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_92c04b83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_92c04b83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_92c04b83 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: When Gutman shaves off the black enamel of the Falcon and exposes lead, he begins frantically slashing and stabbing the statue in outrage that it's a fake. Cairo's outburst upon finding out the statue is fake. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_957e5fc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_957e5fc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_957e5fc2 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_96a33f11 | type |
Riddle for the Ages | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: We never do find out what happened to the original falcon, or if it even existed in the first place. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_96a33f11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_96a33f11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_96a33f11 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_977a6ec0 | type |
Girl Friday | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_977a6ec0 | comment |
Girl Friday: Spade's secretary Effie Perine. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_977a6ec0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_977a6ec0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_977a6ec0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_97b4c1fd | type |
Cut Himself Shaving | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_97b4c1fd | comment |
Cut Himself Shaving: Mockingly offered by Spade to Dundy as a possible reason for a cut on Cairo's head. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_97b4c1fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_97b4c1fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_97b4c1fd | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_9fbe06a5 | type |
Badass in a Nice Suit | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: Spade. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_9fbe06a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_9fbe06a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_9fbe06a5 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a0edf122 | type |
Good with Numbers | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a0edf122 | comment |
Good with Numbers: Gutman's response after the initial shock of the Falcon fakery: "For seventeen years I have wanted that little item and have been trying to get it. If I must spend another year on the quest — well, sir — that will be an additional expenditure in time of only...five and fifteen-seventeenths percent." | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a0edf122 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a0edf122 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a0edf122 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a3912d0e | type |
Sexy Discretion Shot | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a3912d0e | comment |
Sexy Discretion Shot: Sam is leaning in and kissing Brigid in the window, suddenly it's the next morning and the curtains in the window are blowing gently in the sunlight. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a3912d0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a3912d0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a3912d0e | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a4ecfcbf | type |
Dead Partner | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a4ecfcbf | comment |
Dead Partner: Spade notes that one has to avenge one's dead partner, regardless of one's personal feelings towards the partner. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a4ecfcbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a4ecfcbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a4ecfcbf | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a603eaec | type |
Criminally Attractive | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a603eaec | comment |
Criminally Attractive: Spade is in love with Brigid in spite of the fact that she's been murdering and manipulating everyone around her. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a603eaec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a603eaec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a603eaec | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a6c69bd | type |
MacGuffin | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a6c69bd | comment |
The Maltese Falcon itself is rumored to be a solid gold statue encrusted with jewels hiding under a coat of black enamel. Gutman is willing to pay huge sums of money for it because he knows he can receive even more in exchange. The Falcon's backstory is long and convoluted, involving Knights Templar, Charles V of Spain, and a tribute made of jewels. It also doesn't matter one bit. The backstory adds to the "thrilling" part of the story, but in actuality, it's ridiculous. Lots of suspense is built around the falcon, and it's not actually seen until almost the end of the movie. The film runs 1 hour and 41 minutes, and we see the Falcon around 1 hour 27 minutes, barely ten minutes before the credits. The newspaper is torn from the bird like a sort of striptease, and Gutman caresses his treasure, except... the falcon was fake. So, in a way, the Falcon was a MacGuffin bringing the entire cast together. When Sam Spade says that the Maltese Falcon is "the stuff that dreams are made of," he's alluding to the fact that it's insubstantial (worthless) and to the fact that everywhere the Maltese Falcon goes, death follows it. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a6c69bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a6c69bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a6c69bd | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a7c91a10 | type |
Meaningless Villain Victory | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a7c91a10 | comment |
Meaningless Villain Victory: The bad guys take the Falcon. It's fake. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a7c91a10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a7c91a10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a7c91a10 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a859f080 | type |
Agent Peacock | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a859f080 | comment |
Agent Peacock: For a strongly implied gay man in a pre-gay age and a central antagonist, Cairo is quite fabulous. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a859f080 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a859f080 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a859f080 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a8adc5a0 | type |
Like a Son to Me | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a8adc5a0 | comment |
Like a Son to Me: Subverted. Gutman treats Wilmer as such, even stating "I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son." What follows has to be one of the coldest lines in movie history. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a8adc5a0 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a8adc5a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_a8adc5a0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_aaf19fae | type |
Doesn't Like Guns | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_aaf19fae | comment |
Doesn't Like Guns: When Sam Spade is asked why he doesn't carry a gun, he simply replies that he doesn't like them. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_aaf19fae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_aaf19fae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_aaf19fae | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_ab8e26e2 | type |
Slipping a Mickey | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_ab8e26e2 | comment |
Slipping a Mickey: Gutman does this to Spade during their second meeting. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_ab8e26e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_ab8e26e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_ab8e26e2 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b4a6ae4c | type |
Everyone Has Standards | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b4a6ae4c | comment |
Everyone Has Standards: Related to Every Man Has His Price: | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b4a6ae4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b4a6ae4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b4a6ae4c | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b9fa17b7 | type |
Pretender Diss | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b9fa17b7 | comment |
Pretender Diss: Sam Spade has venomous contempt for wannabe tough-guy and "gunsel", Wilmer. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b9fa17b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b9fa17b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_b9fa17b7 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_bc3b029b | type |
Impairment Shot | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_bc3b029b | comment |
Impairment Shot: Spade's vision blurs as the drug Gutman gave him kicks in. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_bc3b029b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_bc3b029b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_bc3b029b | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_be009bbc | type |
Alliterative Name | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: Sam Spade. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_be009bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_be009bbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_be009bbc | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: It's up in the air for much of the story exactly which side of 'right' vs 'wrong' Sam Spade will ultimately fall upon. It's ultimately on the side of 'right'. Turns out you don't kill a private detective's partner, even if the private detective didn't like the partner. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_beb9a361 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_beb9a361 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_beb9a361 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c313d43a | type |
True Companions | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c313d43a | comment |
True Companions: If you're a detective, it doesn't matter that you hated your partner and were sleeping with his wife — he's your partner, and if he's killed you have to do something about it. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c313d43a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c313d43a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c313d43a | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c8d6d621 | type |
I Will Wait for You | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c8d6d621 | comment |
I Will Wait for You: At the end, Spade promises to wait for Brigid. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c8d6d621 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c8d6d621 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_c8d6d621 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d42569b | type |
MacGuffin Title | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d42569b | comment |
MacGuffin Title: The film is named for the statuette the characters are pursuing, which only actually appears at the end of the film (and isn't even the genuine article). | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d42569b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d42569b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d42569b | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d60d12e4 | type |
Harbinger of Impending Doom | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d60d12e4 | comment |
Harbinger of Impending Doom: Captain Jacobi shows up at Spade's office, having been shot multiple times but still carrying the Falcon, and he is only able to mumble a vague explanation before dying. It isn't long before his killer and the men for whom he is working catch up with Spade. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d60d12e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d60d12e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_d60d12e4 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_da650ce1 | type |
I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_da650ce1 | comment |
I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: Capt Jacobi stumbles into Spade's office with the Falcon. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_da650ce1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_da650ce1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_da650ce1 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_de02afbc | type |
No MacGuffin, No Winner | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_de02afbc | comment |
No MacGuffin, No Winner: The bad guys get hold of the Falcon, but it turns out to be a fake. It's left open whether it was fake all along, or there's still a real Falcon out there somewhere. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_de02afbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_de02afbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_de02afbc | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_dfa71e43 | type |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Joel Cairo spends most of the movie getting roughed up. He barely does anything of use. Wilmer is insulted, humiliated and beaten up throughout the film. Offscreen, though, he's a killer. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_dfa71e43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_dfa71e43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_dfa71e43 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: Joel Cairo. It's rather less ambiguous in the original novel and in the pre-Hays Code film adaptation (in the 1941 version, you could tell he was gay because he wore white gloves and smelled of gardenia, not to mention Hammett's references to Wilmer as the 'gunsel', which is not slang for a gun-toting criminal). | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e34400ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e34400ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e34400ab | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e52a0cac | type |
He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e52a0cac | comment |
He Who Must Not Be Seen: Floyd Thursby, the murder victim. | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e52a0cac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e52a0cac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e52a0cac | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e563bf09 | type |
Insistent Terminology | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: Spade repeatedly refers to the Falcon as "the dingus". | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e563bf09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e563bf09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) | hasFeature |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e563bf09 | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Kasper Gutman has been chasing the Falcon for 17 odd years; after he finds out that the bird they've stolen is a fake, he's ready in an instant to go back to Istanbul to start the search all over again. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_ea38ddd5 | comment |
Sissy Villain: All members of the villain trio have this going to some degree, but Cairo is particularly effeminate. | |
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| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_edf841f6 | type |
Worthless Treasure Twist | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_edf841f6 | comment |
Worthless Treasure Twist: The titular falcon statuette is only a big hunk of lead under the ebony enamel, leading to a moment of Villainous Breakdown. The Trope is played with in that fact that this discovery only makes the bad guys do an "I Reject Your Reality" (believing that maybe it was switched with a replica) and decide to continue their quest. | |
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| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_f005bd1c | type |
Friend on the Force | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_f005bd1c | comment |
Friend on the Force: Sgt. Polhaus is this, in contrast to Lt. Dundy. | |
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| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_f178203a | type |
Inspector Javert | |
| The Maltese Falcon (1941) / int_f178203a | comment |
Inspector Javert: Lt. Dundy is fairly close in his desire to take Spade down. His constant interrogations of Spade for anything that happens in the plot is a Running Gag, and Spade makes a point of demanding of Gutman that he better get a Fall Guy for everything Spade has done if he wants the Falcon, otherwise Dundy will continue chasing Spade until doomsday. | |
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Villainous Glutton | |
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Villainous Glutton: Gutman. | |
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Defensive Failure | |
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Defensive Failure | |
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