Miker writes:
"An excellent example of this would be THE MALTESE FALCON.
I'm not an expert on any kind of noir, and in film noir I am
on very shaky grounds, but I believe that it's considered a
noir film, isn't it? I have also heard it said that nothing
Hammett wrote was noir, that his characters were simply too
tough to be noir. I think the implication was that his
writing lacked the sweat, fear, and desperation that the dark
and sinister atmosphere is supposed to gen- erate."
Just like to remind folks that the last lines of The Maltese
Falcon read:
"Spade, looking at his desk, nodded almost impreceptably.
'Yes,' he said, and shivered. "Well, send her in.'"
Oh, he's sweating, afraid, and desperate all right!
I think it was Esquire magazine some years ago who claimed
Sam Spade was murdered on the very next page. Iva, of
course!
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