I've heard that Falcon radio broadcast and it take liberties
with both the book and the movie. As I recall, it's only 30
mins long. Hard to tell what anybody is really thinking when
the tale is pushed together that fast.
Patrick King
--- Bill Crider <
macavityabc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of those Ace Doubles sold a lot of copies,
as
> eBay has proven. They
> turn up all the time. One reason that they
could
> sell for 35 cents is that
> the writers weren't paid much. Even if you
convert
> the dollars into today's
> values, they won't come up to anywhere near
Robert
> B. Parker's advances.
>
> Last night, driving home from a "literary
festival,"
> I was listening to XM
> Radio and happened to hear the Screen
Guild's
> 30-minute version of THE
> MALTESE FALCON with Bogart, Astor, Greenstreet,
and
> Lorre repeating their
> original roles. I've avoided taking part in
the
> discussion of whether the
> novel itself is noir, but the radio show made
me
> think about Spade's being
> in love with Brigid. Bogart's reading of the
line
> makes is sound as if he
> was, or at least as much in love as Spade could
be.
> But that's just a line
> reading. I've always thought of the ending of
the
> novel as pretty
> downbeat. Effie's going to send in Mrs.
Archer.
> Spade's not in prison or a
> wheelchair, but he's got Mrs. Archer to look
forward
> to.
>
> Bill Crider
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have
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> removed]
>
>
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