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

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* InspectorJavert: 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 RunningGag, and Spade makes a point of demanding of Gutman that he better get a FallGuy for everything Spade has done if he wants the Falcon, otherwise Dundy will continue chasing Spade until doomsday.
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* 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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* 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.doesn't: because it's what she's been counting on with everyone.
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** Brigid wears at leas four furs in the movie: a silver fox wrap, a Persian lamb coat, a stole of sables, and a mink coat.

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** Brigid wears at leas least four furs in the movie: a silver fox wrap, a Persian lamb coat, a stole of sables, and a mink coat.

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* ImpairmentShot: Spade's vision blurs as the drug Gutman gave him kicks in.



* IWillWaitForYou: At the end, Spade promises to wait for [[spoiler:Brigid]].

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* IWillWaitForYou: At the end, Spade promises to wait for [[spoiler:Brigid]].Brigid.
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''The Maltese Falcon'' is a 1941 Creator/WarnerBros FilmNoir directed by Creator/JohnHuston and based on the [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon novel of the same name]] by Creator/DashiellHammett. It stars Creator/HumphreyBogart as HardboiledDetective Sam Spade, Creator/MaryAstor as his FemmeFatale client, Creator/SydneyGreenstreet (in his film debut) as the sinister "fat man" Kasper Gutman, and Creator/PeterLorre and Creator/ElishaCookJr as Gutman's AmbiguouslyGay sidekicks. The story concerns Spade'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 FilmNoir directed by Creator/JohnHuston and based on the [[Literature/TheMalteseFalcon novel of the same name]] by Creator/DashiellHammett.Creator/DashiellHammett, with Huston's screenplay using most of the book's original dialogue. It stars Creator/HumphreyBogart as HardboiledDetective Sam Spade, Creator/MaryAstor as his FemmeFatale client, Creator/SydneyGreenstreet (in his film debut) as the sinister "fat man" Kasper Gutman, and Creator/PeterLorre and Creator/ElishaCookJr as Gutman's AmbiguouslyGay sidekicks. The story concerns Spade's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
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* SchiffOneLiner: "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of." Curiously, this is ''not'' a line from the novel.

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* SchiffOneLiner: "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of." Curiously, this This is one of the few famous quotes from the film that is ''not'' a line from the novel.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Spade's last line, which provides the photo caption, is a slightly mangled quote from ''Theatre/TheTempest''.

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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Spade's last line, which provides the photo caption, line is a slightly mangled quote from ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
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The movie's success was big enough that Classic RadioDrama, ''The Adventures of Sam Spade'', was made from 1946-1951, starring Howard Duff doing a credible Bogart impression.

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