#sigfried gruning

OK at this point it's on me cause I even made a post just the other day saying that I oughtta look up how much screentime peter has in a film before I watch it(and subsequently whine about it on tumblr) but you have to admit they're taken the piss by having one of the first billed actors be a dude who doesn't show up till the 30 minute mark, gets like 5 minutes of screentime and just evaporates out of the plot. Also idek where I got this assumption, but for some reason I figured that these films where Peter Lorre only got like 5 minutes of screentime weren't really a thing till the 40s

At least Fritz Feld was in it. Its always a nice treat when he pops up in something. Considering Max was the first character I've seen him play it's kind of surprising how dang loveable Fritz is. Also this makes three films to my knowledge with both Fritz Feld and Peter Lorre and its such a shame that they don't interact much or at all in any of them

Ferdi was pretty funny too. Loved when he left the room and just made that "Aaaagh" sound for no reason. My kind of guy

This makes the second Peter Lorre film I've seen where Peter does not play the character I find to be the most loveable. Tbh Major Gruning might be peters most meh character for me. I do enjoy that he's a rare Peter lorre character with facial hair though. Lil moostash

We got ourselves another supposed femme fatale, who's whole way of life, previous loyalties and nonchalance about murder just disappear over some joe she knew for like an hour. I swear, everytime I see this happen in one of these old films I appreciate o Shaughnessy a little bit more. She may end the film with the whole "oh Sam dont throw me away, I friggin love you and stuff uwu" thing, but it's entirely possible(and I much prefer to believe) that she never cared about Spade and just doesn't wanna go to jail and I love that about her. Give me more bad bitches who just don't wanna go to jail. At least if she's just gonna be killed off or something anyway

I did like Dolores outfits though. Especially the one with the shiny bonnet thing. That was neat

This feels like an especially stupid nitpick(and for me that's saying something) but it kinda bugs me that the Germans keep randomly saying German words to eachother. Why? Surely they're speaking to eachother in German and we're hearing it in English, but then why would some words and phrases still be German?