I saw the Bogart MALTESE FALCON last night, and loved it as
much as ever
(especially, as always, Gutman's line about leaving the rara
avis on the table as a memento for Miss O'Shaughnessy). Today
I've been wondering about something: Spade's bed in his
apartment. When he's woken up by the phone call telling him
Archer's dead, he sits on the side of his bed as he takes the
call and then calls Effie to ask that she break the news to
Iva Archer. We can see the head of the bed, and it looks like
it has a metal frame. Later that night, the cops come by, and
sit in chairs facing the bed while questioning Spade.
When everyone's waiting all night for the falcon to arrive,
there's no bed. Brigid reclines on a sofa, and it doesn't
look like a pull-out sofa bed. Gutman sits in one of the
chairs the cops sat in, but no bed faces it. Was the bed
really a sofa-bed (it's not a Murphy bed), did the camera
angles hide it, or did the set designer just get rid of it
when it wasn't needed?
I can't deny this is a minor matter, but it's been bugging
me.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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