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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was. No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. ''YOU...YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!! YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.

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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. it! You and your stupid attempt to buy it. it! Kemedov found out how valuable it was. was! No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. it! ''YOU...YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!! YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.
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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. ''YOU...YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!! YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.

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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no was. No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. ''YOU...YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!! YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.
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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. ''YOU... YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!!. YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.

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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. ''YOU... YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!!. IDIOT!! YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.
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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to Kasper Gutman) You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. ''YOU... YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!!. YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''.
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-->'''Sam Spade:''' When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere.

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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: The bad guys take the Falcon. It's fake.



* PoundOfFleshTwist: The bad guys take the Falcon. It's fake.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The opening crawl states that the Knights Templar of Malta created the falcon in 1534. The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1314.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The opening crawl states that the Knights Templar of Malta created the falcon in 1534. 1539. The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1314.1312.
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An earlier (pre Hays Code) version was released in 1931 starring Ricardo Cortez. It was far less ambiguous about Lorre's character in particular. It also suffered from a decidedly OutOfCharacter portrayal of Sam Spade as TheDandy. The novel was adapted again in 1936 under the title ''Satan Met a Lady''; this version also changed Sam Spade's name, to "Ted Shane".

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An earlier (pre Hays Code) version was released in 1931 starring Ricardo Cortez. It was far less ambiguous about Lorre's character in particular. It also suffered from a decidedly OutOfCharacter portrayal of Sam Spade as TheDandy. The novel was adapted again in 1936 under the title ''Satan Met a Lady''; this version also changed Sam Spade's name, to "Ted Shane".
Shane", and featured BetteDavis in the femme fatale role.



* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Wilmer is set to be the fall guy by the other crooks. He was a JerkAss the entire time.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Wilmer is set to be the fall guy by the other crooks. He was a JerkAss the entire time.]]



-->[[spoiler: But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.]]

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-->[[spoiler: But, -->But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.]]
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* AffablyEvil:

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* AffablyEvil: AffablyEvil:



* BeamMeUpScotty: Done by Spade himself. The actual [[TheTempest quote]] is, "Such stuff as dreams are made on."

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* BeamMeUpScotty: Done by Spade himself. The actual [[TheTempest [[Theatre/TheTempest quote]] is, "Such stuff as dreams are made on."



* HeyItsThatGuy: Brigid O'Shaughnessy is Raymond Massey's [[Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda mistress]] and JudyGarland's [[MeetMeInStLouis mother]]; Wilmer is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk's]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708425/ lawyer]], and Icepick from [[{{Magnum PI}} Magnum]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Brigid O'Shaughnessy is Raymond Massey's [[Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda mistress]] and JudyGarland's [[MeetMeInStLouis mother]]; Wilmer is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk's]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708425/ lawyer]], and Icepick from [[{{Magnum PI}} [[MagnumPI Magnum]]



* {{Nice Hat}}: It's a Film Noir, and it stars Humphrey Bogart. Nice Hats are guaranteed.

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* {{Nice Hat}}: NiceHat: It's a Film Noir, and it stars Humphrey Bogart. Nice Hats are guaranteed.
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Is he an action hero in this, or just a tough character?


* FedoraOfAsskicking: It's Bogart, after all.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Brigid O'Shaughnessy is Raymond Massey's [[Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda mistress]] and JudyGarland's [[MeetMeInStLouis mother]]; Wilmer is [[StarTrek Captain Kirk's]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708425/ lawyer]], and Icepick from [[{{Magnum PI}} Magnum]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Brigid O'Shaughnessy is Raymond Massey's [[Film/ThePrisonerOfZenda mistress]] and JudyGarland's [[MeetMeInStLouis mother]]; Wilmer is [[StarTrek [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk's]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708425/ lawyer]], and Icepick from [[{{Magnum PI}} Magnum]]
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* AgentPeacock: For a guy man in a pre-gay age and a central antagonist, Cairo is quite [[TheDandy fabulous]].

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* AgentPeacock: For a guy strongly implied gay man in a pre-gay age and a central antagonist, Cairo is quite [[TheDandy fabulous]].
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* PoundOfFleshTwist: The bad guys take the Falcon. It's fake.
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* FedoraOfAsskicking: It's Bogart, after all.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: General Kemidov is TheGhost, but even before the story begins, [[spoiler: when Gutman wanted to buy the McGuffin, he realized that it would be important and replaced it with a MockGuffin that the gang found very easy to stole.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: General Kemidov is TheGhost, but even before the story begins, [[spoiler: when Gutman wanted to buy the McGuffin, he realized that it would be important and replaced it with a MockGuffin that the gang found very easy to stole.steal.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Kasper Gutman.

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* AffablyEvil: AffablyEvil:
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Kasper Gutman.Gutman.
** 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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* AntiHero: It's up in the air for much of the story exactly which side of 'right' vs 'wrong' Sam Spade will ultimately fall upon. [[spoiler: 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]].
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''TheMalteseFalcon'' has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by RogerEbert, and ''Entertainment Weekly'', and was cited by ''Panorama du Film Noir Américain'', the first major work of FilmNoir, as the first film of that genre, as there is some debate as to whether the earlier ''Film/{{M}}'' can be considered noir or proto-noir. The film was JohnHuston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.

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''TheMalteseFalcon'' has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by RogerEbert, and ''Entertainment Weekly'', and was cited by ''Panorama du Film Noir Américain'', the first major work of FilmNoir, as FilmNoir. Whether or not it is the first ''first'' film of that genre, as there is some debate as to whether the earlier ''Film/{{M}}'' can be considered noir or proto-noir. The film was JohnHuston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
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* AgentPeacock: For a guy man in a pre-gay age, Cairo is quite [[TheDandy fabulous]].

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* AgentPeacock: For a guy man in a pre-gay age, age and a central antagonist, Cairo is quite [[TheDandy fabulous]].
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* AgentPeacock: For a guy man in a pre-gay age, Cairo is quite [[TheDandy fabulous]].
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** In Yiddish, the suffix ''-el'' or ''-eleh'' are diminutives, so it may have been thought that Spade was insulting Wilmer's prowess as a gunman.

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** In Yiddish, the suffix ''-el'' or ''-eleh'' are diminutives, is diminutive, so it may have been thought that Spade was insulting Wilmer's prowess as a gunman.
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** In Yiddish, the suffix ''-el'' or ''-eleh'' are diminutives, so it may have been thought that Spade was [[YourLittleDismissiveDismissive insulting Wilmer's prowess as a gunman.]]

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** In Yiddish, the suffix ''-el'' or ''-eleh'' are diminutives, so it may have been thought that Spade was [[YourLittleDismissiveDismissive insulting Wilmer's prowess as a gunman.]]
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** In Yiddish, the suffix ''-el'' or ''-eleh'' are diminutives, so it may have been thought that Spade was [[YourLittleDismissiveDismissive insulting Wilmer's prowess as a gunman.]]
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* InsistentTerminology: Spade repeatedly refers to the Falcon as "the dingus".
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: General Kemidov is TheGhost, but even before the story begins, [[Spoiler: when Gutman wanted to buy the McGuffin, he realized that it would be important and replaced it with a MockGuffin that the gang found very easy to stole.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: General Kemidov is TheGhost, but even before the story begins, [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: when Gutman wanted to buy the McGuffin, he realized that it would be important and replaced it with a MockGuffin that the gang found very easy to stole.]]
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: General Kemidov is TheGhost, but even before the story begins, [[Spoiler: when Gutman wanted to buy the McGuffin, he realized that it would be important and replaced it with a MockGuffin that the gang found very easy to stole.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The opening crawl states that the Knights Templar of Malta created the falcon in 1534. The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1314.



* DidNotDoTheResearch: The opening crawl states that the Knights Templar of Malta created the falcon in 1534. The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1314.
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* FriendOnTheForce: Sgt. Polhaus is this, in contrast to Lt. Dundy.


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* InspectorJavert: Lt. Dundy is fairly close in his desire to take Spade down.
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