The Maltese Falcon News

TODAY: Is the monthly meeting of the social and entertainment club. This montha s film is The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade.

"Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. This heart-wrenching romance about two lost lovers and a rekindled romance is sure to capture your heart.

BEBINGTON Dramatic Society is presenting Woody Allen's romantic comedy Play It Again, Sam next month.

Julie Rivett has only two memories of her famous grandfather, author Dashiell Hammett.

Janus Theatre puts a different spin on "Romeo and Juliet" by staging Shakespeare's tragedy about the young star-crossed lovers with an all-female cast.

Slate has an article pooh-poohing old systems of trying to classify personalities by physical type and then worriedly reporting on new studies showing that maybe there is a correlation between say a heavy brow ridge and aggressiveness after all.

DVD collections continues to wash up on video shelves everywhere. Last year, the super-studio, in partnership with Warner Brothers, introduced these budget DVD compilations that contain some of the most renowned films of all-time. All of the titles have been available individually, some for quite a while.

Reviews DVD Video Reviews TCM Greatest Classic Films: Murder Mysteries TCM Greatest Classic Films: Murder Mysteries Warner Bros.

Spade is back. "Tough, nasty, smart, bullheaded" Sam Spade of the long, bony jaw, sloping shoulders and bearlike body; the six-foot-tall gumshoe with the hooded eyes who wouldn't play the sap for anyone, not even for the woman he loved, and who plied his trade on the fringes of the law in San Francisco during the Prohibition years.

Eighty years ago, while Wall Street was reeling, American literature was striking it rich.

If indeed there is a "New Boston," we were reminded for the fifth time last night that it loves its 66-year-old mayor.

Where's the falcon? This is the question many a Rockaway Town ship resident will be asking throughout October.

The Maltese Falcon 1941 // 100 Minutes // Not Rated The Big Sleep 1946 // 114 Minutes // Not Rated The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 // 113 Minutes // Not Rated Dial M For Murder 1955 // 105 Minutes // Rated PG Released by Warner Bros.

John Huston was born on August 5, 1906, in Nevada, Missouri, a town that his grandfather won in a poker game, according to family legend.

Does the announced remake of "Yellow Submarine" make you feel like a Blue Meanie? "There's nothing new except that which has been forgotten," proclaimed Rose Bertin, Marie Antoinette's milliner.

In February, Warner Home Video and Turner Classics started releasing collections of films for movie lovers.

The first movie was made in 1931. The movie starred "Latin Lover" Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly, Dudley Digges as Casper Gutman, and Otto Matieson as Joel Cairo.

It's a world of scheming vixens, lonesome gumshoes and wheedling informers. Someone's to blame for film noir, but who? Matthew Sweet lines up the suspects The hero who's on the way to the gallows, and knows it.

Let's say we're talking about literature, American literature, and we're just talking not concerned with, say, inclusiveness but just gabbing about writers who strike us on this particular evening for no good reason but that it's this particular evening.

All of us readers and movie buffs can think of films which were not nearly as memorable as the books they were based upon.