Handling a case

Trycia 2022-03-25 09:01:06

The story takes place in the city of San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s. Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and Archer are a pair of detectives whose mission is to shuttle between the city Landlord handling the case. One day they received a sale, and a lady commissioned them to find her missing sister. After fully understanding the relevant information, they found that the lady's sister was said to be with a mysterious man named Seth. Originally they thought it was a very simple case of tracing people, but soon they found that things were far from being as simple as they thought. There is an astonishing network of behind-the-scenes and intricate facts about this case.

Archer was killed in the process of investigating the case, followed by Floyd Sears. Soon the police intervened, but the police's conclusion was shocking. They believed that Spade might have an affair with Archer's wife Ava and killed her partner. For a time, Spade not only failed to dig further. The truth of the case is difficult to protect itself. Spade is reluctant to give up, he is still working in secret to investigate the case, he goes to visit the lady and learns that her real name is Bridge (Mary Astor), who has been with Gutman and the gangster Wei Wei. Ermer and others have sold antiques. As they continued to deepen, Gutman asked Spade to ask them to get a priceless treasure - the "Malta Eagle" statue. And that's a very difficult situation for Spade, because for him to get the statue, someone has to take responsibility for Archer's murder in order to hand over the statue.

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  • Margot 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    Less than two months after the film was released, the Pacific War broke out and the United States was involved in World War II. After this, it was considered by the film history as a period of silence for the newly emerging film noir, because the American film industry also served the mobilization of war power, and the dark and negative film noir was degenerate and out of place. The Falcon of Malta is generally considered the first film noir, but followed the characteristics of film noir (expressionist cinematography, low-key lighting, morally flawed tough guys, seductive female characters, extensive interior and night scenes, gloomy or crime themes, etc.) retrospectively, some crime or gangster films of the 1930s were also classified as film noir. As the concept of film criticism proposed by the French, American classic noir is better to define and classify, but in the period of color film, the so-called neo-noir is more controversial, and most of them can only be based on several main characteristics of classic noir. define. I was having dinner with a friend the other day and he said that some of the films we wrote were not film noir at all, and I don't want to argue, it's really controversial whether they are film noir or not, we're just discussing how to understand them within the framework of film noir.

  • Dayne 2021-12-30 17:20:42

    Probably can't find anyone who throws a cup and falls more handsome than Bogart!

The Maltese Falcon quotes

  • Kasper Gutman: These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells' history, but history nevertheless.

  • Brigid O'Shaughnessy: He has a wife and three children in England.

    Sam Spade: They usually do, though not always in England.