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* PragmaticAdaptation: Spade does not strip Brigid to search for the missing bill, since this scene could not be filmed with TheHaysCode.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Joel Cairo. It's rather less ambiguous in the original novel and in the pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode Hays Code]] film adaptation (in the 1941 version, you could tell he was gay because he wore white gloves and smelled of lavender, not to mention Hammett's references to Wilmer as the 'gunsel', which is ''not'' slang for a gun-toting criminal).
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Joel Cairo. It's rather less ambiguous in the original novel and in the pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode Hays Code]] film adaptation (in the 1941 version, you could tell he was gay because he wore white gloves and smelled of lavender, gardenia, not to mention Hammett's references to Wilmer as the 'gunsel', which is ''not'' slang for a gun-toting criminal).
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''The Maltese Falcon'' has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Creator/RogerEbert, and ''Entertainment Weekly'', and was cited by ''Panorama du Film Noir Américain'' as the first major work of FilmNoir. (Though today, movie historians generally consider the first noir to be ''Stranger on the Third Floor'', released one year earlier.) The film was Creator/JohnHuston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards. It was actually the third version of Hammett's novel, having been made in 1931 as ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1931}}'' and more loosely in 1936 as ''Satan Met a Lady''.
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''The Maltese Falcon'' has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Creator/RogerEbert, and ''Entertainment Weekly'', and was cited by ''Panorama du Film Noir Américain'' as the first major work of FilmNoir. (Though today, movie historians generally consider the first noir to be ''Stranger on the Third Floor'', released one year earlier.) The film was Creator/JohnHuston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s. It was actually the third version of Hammett's novel, having been made in 1931 as ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1931}}'' and more loosely in 1936 as ''Satan Met a Lady''.
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* MacGuffin: The Falcon, which has little use in the story other than to be something valuable enough to drive the plot.
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* TheDeterminator: 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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* TheDeterminator: {{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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Awards. It was actually the third version of Hammett's novel, having been made in 1931 as ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1931}}'' and more loosely in 1936 as ''Satan Met a Lady''.
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* IRejectYourReality: Gutman and Cairo would rather believe Kemidov is a MagnificentBastard that 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 do leaves open whether or not this is the actual reality.
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* IRejectYourReality: Gutman and Cairo would rather believe Kemidov is a MagnificentBastard that 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 do leaves open whether or not this is the actual reality.
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* HardboiledDetective: 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 BlackAndGrayMorality 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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* HardboiledDetective: 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 BlackAndGrayMorality [[BlackAndGrayMorality conflict over the Falcon, Falcon]], and is seldom seen without a cigar or cigarette in his mouth and a drink in his hand.
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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The titular falcon statuette is only a big hunk of lead under the ebony enamel, leading to a moment of VillainousBreakdown. The Trope is played with in that fact that this discovery only makes the bad guys do an "IRefuseYourReality" (believing that ''maybe'' it was switched with a replica) and decide to continue their quest.
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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The titular falcon statuette is only a big hunk of lead under the ebony enamel, leading to a moment of VillainousBreakdown. The Trope is played with in that fact that this discovery only makes the bad guys do an "IRefuseYourReality" "IRejectYourReality" (believing that ''maybe'' it was switched with a replica) and decide to continue their quest.
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* IRefuseYourReality: IRejectYourReality: Gutman and Cairo would rather believe Kemidov is a MagnificentBastard that 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 do leaves open whether or not this is the actual reality.
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* IRefuseYourReality: Gutman and Cairo would rather believe Kemidov is a MagnificentBastard that 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 do leaves open whether or not this is the actual reality.
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* WorthlessTreasureTwistWorthlessTreasureTwist: The titular falcon statuette is only a big hunk of lead under the ebony enamel, leading to a moment of VillainousBreakdown. The Trope is played with in that fact that this discovery only makes the bad guys do an "IRefuseYourReality" (believing that ''maybe'' it was switched with a replica) and decide to continue their quest.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bad guys are exposed and rounded up, but Spade turns over O'Shaughnessy, with whom he's fa llen in love, to the cops to avenge his partner. And it wasn't even the real Falcon to begin with.
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* BittersweetEnding: The bad guys are exposed and rounded up, but Spade turns over O'Shaughnessy, with whom he's fa llen 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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* CantUnhearIt: Try reading the book after watching the film without hearing Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/PeterLorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Mary Astor in their roles.
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* ManipilativeBastard: [[spoiler: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.
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* ManipilativeBastard: ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: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.
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* CentralTheme: Can matters of the heart override one's sense of justice?
* FatBastard: Kasper Gutman.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Floyd Thursby, the murder victim.
* IWillWaitForYou: At the end, Spade promises to wait for [[spoiler:Brigid]].
* KnightInSourArmour: Spade.
* KnightInSourArmour: Spade.
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* NiceHat: It's a Film Noir, and it stars Humphrey Bogart. Nice Hats are guaranteed.
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* NiceHat: It's a Film Noir, and it stars Humphrey Bogart. Creator/HumphreyBogart. Nice Hats are guaranteed.guaranteed.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: 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.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: 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.
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: The murder of Spade's partner Archer sets the plot in motion.
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* RiddleForTheAges: We never do find out what happened to the original falcon.
* SchiffOneLiner: "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."
* SchiffOneLiner: "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."
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* WickedCultured: Gutman.
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* AlliterativeName: Sam Spade.
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* BadassInANiceSuit: Spade.
* BittersweetEnding: The bad guys are exposed and rounded up, but Spade turns over O'Shaughnessy, with whom he'sfallen fa llen in love, to the cops to avenge his partner. And it wasn't even the real Falcon to begin with.
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* CampGay: Joel Cairo.
* CantUnhearIt: Try reading the book after watching the film without hearing Creator/HumphreyBogart, Creator/PeterLorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Mary Astor in their roles.
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* DeadPartner: Spade notes that one has to avenge one's dead partner, regardless of one's personal feelings towards the partner.
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* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney: 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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* TrueCompanions: 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.
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* TheKnightsHospitallers: The original owners of the fabled bird.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Spade is blonde in the novel.
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* HardboiledDetective: Sam Spade is one of the codifiers.
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* SmokingIsCool: 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 HardboiledDetective.
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* TheDeterminator: Kasper Gutman is 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 restart the search all over again
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* TheDeterminator: Kasper Gutman is 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 restart start the search all over again
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* HarbingerOfImpendingDoom: Captain JacobiJacobi 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.
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* ItMustBeMine: Most of the characters will go to any lengths to get it.
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* MockGuffin: The eponymous statue.
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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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* SissyVillain: All members of the villain trio has this going to some degree, but Cairo is particularly effeminate.
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* StolenMacGuffinReveal: 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'Shaugenessy immediately bought the first version, [[ArtifactOfAttraction such is the power of the falcon over them]].
* TerribleTrio: Cairo, Gutman, and Wilmer.
* VillainousBreakdown: Cairo's outburst upon finding out the statue is fake probably counts as one.
-->'''Joel Cairo:''' ''[to Kasper Gutman]'' '''You!''' You bungled it! You and your ''stupid'' attempt to buy it! Kemidov found out how valuable it was! No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it! You... ''YOU IMBECILE! YOU '''BLOATED IDIOT!!''''' You stupid ''FATHEAD'', you-- ''[breaks down crying]''
** 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.
* TerribleTrio: Cairo, Gutman, and Wilmer.
* VillainousBreakdown: Cairo's outburst upon finding out the statue is fake probably counts as one.
-->'''Joel Cairo:''' ''[to Kasper Gutman]'' '''You!''' You bungled it! You and your ''stupid'' attempt to buy it! Kemidov found out how valuable it was! No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it! You... ''YOU IMBECILE! YOU '''BLOATED IDIOT!!''''' You stupid ''FATHEAD'', you-- ''[breaks down crying]''
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* StolenMacGuffinReveal: 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'Shaugenessy O'Shaughnessy immediately bought the first version, [[ArtifactOfAttraction such is the power of the falcon over them]].
* TerribleTrio:Cairo, Gutman, Gutman is the leader of the three crooks, and Wilmer.
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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** 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.
--->'''Kasper Gutman:''' ''[scraping the statue more and more frantically]'' Fake. It's a phony! It's lead! It's lead! It's a fake!
** Cairo's outburst upon finding out the statue isfake probably counts as one.
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--->'''Joel Cairo:''' ''[to Kasper Gutman]'' '''You!''' You bungled it! You and your ''stupid'' attempt to buy it! Kemidov found out how valuable it was! No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it! You... ''YOU IMBECILE! YOU '''BLOATED IDIOT!!''''' You stupid ''FATHEAD'', you-- ''[breaks downcrying]''
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** 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.
--->'''Kasper Gutman:''' ''[scraping the statue more and more frantically]'' Fake. It's a phony! It's lead! It's lead! It's a fake!
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-->'''Joel
--->'''Joel Cairo:''' ''[to Kasper Gutman]'' '''You!''' You bungled it! You and your ''stupid'' attempt to buy it! Kemidov found out how valuable it was! No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it! You... ''YOU IMBECILE! YOU '''BLOATED IDIOT!!''''' You stupid ''FATHEAD'', you-- ''[breaks down
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'''''The Maltese Falcon''''' is a 1941 Creator/WarnerBros film directed by Creator/JohnHuston and based on the [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon the novel of the same name]] by Creator/DashiellHammett, starring Creator/DashiellHammett. It stars Creator/HumphreyBogart as HardboiledDetective Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his FemmeFatale client, Sydney Greenstreet in (in his film debut, debut) as the sinister "fat man" Kasper Gutman, and Creator/PeterLorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. as his Gutman's AmbiguouslyGay sidekicks. The story concerns a private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
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''The Maltese Falcon'' is a 1941 Creator/WarnerBros film based on [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon the novel of the same name]] by Creator/DashiellHammett, starring Creator/HumphreyBogart as HardboiledDetective Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his FemmeFatale client, Sydney Greenstreet in his film debut, and Creator/PeterLorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. as his AmbiguouslyGay sidekicks. The story concerns a private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
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-->'''Joel Cairo:''' (to ''[to Kasper Gutman) You... you Gutman]'' '''You!''' You bungled it! You and your stupid ''stupid'' attempt to buy it! Kemedov Kemidov found out how valuable it was! No wonder we had such an easy time stealing it! ''YOU...YOU You... ''YOU IMBECILE! YOU BLOATED IDIOT!! YOU STUPID FAT-HEAD YOU!!!''. '''BLOATED IDIOT!!''''' You stupid ''FATHEAD'', you-- ''[breaks down crying]''
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