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In the audio commentary Eric Lax says that Humphrey Bogart himself may have come up with the memorable line at the end of the movie....

The excellent book The Genius of the System has some great inside history, based on original movie production records, at the various studios from around 1930 to the late 1950s. The author details, among many other things, how the costs of A-features were climbing in the late 1930s and into the...

Amazing that even back in 1941 that The Maltese Falcon could be made for $375,000. Even for a Warner Bros. production in that era this was unusual, since many of their movies were around a million or so. Meticulous preparation by John Huston was what made this possible: "During his preparation...

This seems to be mostly true for most of the studios. But the Sony/Columbia's 4k boxed sets are a notable exception. There are all sorts of new bonus features on those sets. For instance, paired with It Happened One Night was the newly restored 1956 CinemaScope remake with Jack Lemmon and June...

There are elements of Who Framed Roger Rabbit that seem like an homage to this movie. Specifically, Bob Hoskins' Eddie Valiant seems inspired in part by Bogart's Sam Spade. But where Spade almost shrugs off the death of his partner, although feels some of it underneath, Valiant takes it hard...