Okay, that settles it. The second film we will be watching is the maltese falcon, It will be up on the zoo in no time flat. Some time today/tomorrow.

For anybody with access: /Movies/ ... It is available.

THE MALTESE FALCON

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros. film written and directed by John Huston, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, and starring Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, Sydney Greenstreet in his film debut, and Peter Lorre. The film was Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.

The story concerns the entanglement of a San Francisco private investigator with three greedy, unscrupulous and murderous adventurers who compete with each other to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon worth millions.

The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert.[1] and Entertainment Weekly,[2] and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain, the French book that coined the term film noir, as the first film of that genre.[3]

The film premiered on October 3, 1941 in New York City and in 1989 was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.[4]

I haven't yet been able to watch this film for myself yet but I have heard a lot of really great praise for it so it's going to be really interesting for me to finally get to see a film that I have been really looking forward to seeing for a long time. If the Asphalt Jungle is anything to go by I have high hopes for John Huston work and if Casablance is anything to go by I have high hopes for Bogart, not to mention the fact that the film has Peter Lorre in it. The guy with the greatest voice in the history of mankind.