Review of The Maltese Falcon (1941) by Dave Kehr for Chicago Reader — 07 Jun 1993
The Maltese Falcon is really a triumph of casting and wonderfully suggestive character detail; the visual style, with its exaggerated vertical compositions, is striking but not particularly expressive, and its thematics are limited to intimations of absurdism (which, when they exploded in Beat the Devil, turned out to be fairly punk).
But who can argue with Bogart's glower or Mary Astor in her ratty fur?
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This review of The Maltese Falcon (1941) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 07 Jun 1993.
The Maltese Falcon has generally received very positive reviews.
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