--- Kevin Burton Smith
<
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com> wrote:
> Not to say Bogart did a bad job in The Falcon --
he
> didn't -- or that
> Cortez is a dead ringer -- he's not -- but
Bogart's
> certainly not the
> person that comes to mind when you read the book
--
> unless you already
> know of the movie. Bogart's face is more jowly
and
> droopy than
> anything Hammett describes...
****************************************************** Your
comments may be true of the Bogart in THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA
or THE CAIN MUTINY or SABRINA, but not of the young Bogart in
THE MALTESE FALCON. Frankly, it's a black and white movie. I
have no idea what color Sam Spade's hair is. But when I read
the description of Spade on the first page of FALCON, it
summonses up Bogart's face to me. And, yeah, I've read it
once or twice.
Patrick King
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