🦇☕Mr/Mrs Robotnik☕🦇

I certainly hope you don't mind, but I now have a plush that looks just like you! I commissioned someone to make it earlier this year, I hope you like it! 💕

My dear friend! I have indeed been- no, I have been wonderful!!

These recent days I have devoted myself entirely to my lives. Ohh, they were so good to me!!

MALTESE FALCON

1941’s “The Maltese Falcon” based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel and starring Humphrey Bogart is a film noir classic. It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Bogart as private detective Sam Spade. But Warner Brothers produces two other version of the film before 1941

The 1931 original is largely forgot today because everyone remember the better Bogart version. The 31 version hint strongly that several characters are homosexual (like Hammet’s novel) and it had other element that didn’t pass muster when the Hayes Office (studio self-imposes censorship) came into effect in after the film’s initial release. (In 1966 Warner renamed it “Dangerous Female”.)

Not able to re-release the original, Warner decided to make a tamer version in 1936 titled “Satan Meets a Lady” starring Bette Davis in the Brigid O'Shaughnessy role (renamed Valerie Purvis). Along with making the gay gunmen a momma’s boy, it also changed the sex of Gutman the Fat Man to a Fat Woman. The film made another major change. The McGuffin became a Ram’s Horn stuffed with jewels instead of a Falcon statue.

The Bogart version is one of my favorite film noir. The cast is terrific - from Bogart as Spade, Mary Astor as the double crossing femme fatale; Sydney Greenstreet as the Fat Man; Peter Lorre as the greasy accomplice; and Elisha Cook Jr. as the closeted gunman (still hinted at in this later version).

The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly

Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade

Dudley Digges as Casper Gutman

Otto Matieson as Dr. Joel Cairo

Dwight Frye as Wilmer Cook

Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Bette Davis as Valerie Purvis

Warren William as Ted Shane

Alison Skipworth as Madame Barabas

Arthur Treacher as Anthony Travers

Maynard Holmes as Kenneth

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade

Mary Astor as Ruth Wonderly/Brigid O'Shaughnessy

Sidney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman

Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo

How it started vs. How it's going 🦇💗

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