A Few Words About A few words about…™ The Maltese Falcon — in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Robert Harris]

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Originally Posted by ahollis

Thought you were Douglas Shearer, Head of MGM Sound Department in the 30's & 40's. He would go around and tell people they were one sprocket hole off. To this day the editors that are still alive and there are a couple still smile at that remark. It was not that they did not want to do their job correctly, but one sprocket hole was almost impossible to detect, especially in the early days of sound when everyone was writing the rules as they went along.


As someone who has worked with film, yes one frame can make a difference.

AFAIK, the only means of telling a single perf off is non-sync in the leaders. Even if it was, the "problem" would most likely be dealt with or amplified by slight mis-threading.

 

[Matt Hough]

I was delighted to revisit this magnificent film today. I always have a good time with this movie, and today was no exception. One of the greatest of all mystery films, and the Blu-ray does it full justice.

 

[Keith Cobby]

Agree, surprised it hasn't had a reboot by now!

 

[Robert Crawford]

Agree, surprised it hasn't had a reboot by now!

Why should there be a reboot?

 

[Matt Hough]

Especially since it was Hollywood's third try at the book, and they finally got it right.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Why should there be a reboot?

Just because they shouldn't, doesn't mean they will not. After all, did the world really need a shot for shot remake of Psycho?

 

[Will Krupp]

Especially since it was Hollywood's third try at the book, and they finally got it right.

For which, surprisingly, we have the Hays Office to thank! When the newly emboldened production code was launched in July 1934, they took the movies released prior to that and put them in three piles. The first pile was for movies that could be re-released in the new atmosphere as is, the second for movies that could be re-released but needed cuts, and the THIRD pile was for movies that needed to be locked up (think STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE) because there was no way to redeem them for re-release. The original MALTESE FALCON was just one of those un-redeemable movies, so a remake was considered viable since the original could no longer be reissued and would remain largely unseen. Since Warner Bros. failed so miserably in trying to remake it as a "screwball" THIN MAN clone in 1936 and changed all the names, there was still enough life left in the low risk property when Huston asked that it be his promised directorial debut. What a movie!

 

[B-ROLL]

I was delighted to revisit this magnificent film today. I always have a good time with this movie, and today was no exception. One of the greatest of all mystery films, and the Blu-ray does it full justice.

+1
"The stuff that dreams are made of ..."

 

[ScottHM]

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[Johnny Angell]

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I don’t see the spot where the paint was scraped off.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

How nice to revisit it ... as we so often do.

 

[B-ROLL]

I don’t see the spot where the paint was scraped off.

Dang that is BIG USB drive

 

[B-ROLL]

I don’t see the spot where the paint was scraped off.

Well there were ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/02/mystery-of-the-maltese-falcon
The link above contains a spoiler for Citizen Kane and drops the F-word ...

Spoiler

"In all, there appear to have been at least six plaster Falcons created for the 1941 movie, an assertion first made in a little-noticed 1983 memoir by a onetime Warner employee named Stuart Jerome. One is thought to have been damaged, then destroyed, during filming in 1941. By this count,[Hank] Risan owns Falcons two and three; he sold four, to a buyer who declines to be identified. According to an article in a U.S. Copyright Office newsletter, Warner Bros. gave a fifth Falcon to the Copyright Office for an exhibition in 1984. The article says one more plaster Falcon, the sixth by this count, was still in the Warner warehouse at the time. During the course of research for this article, I spoke to a credible individual who said he had recently seen this Falcon—of unpainted plaster—in the warehouse.'

 

[Mike2001]

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• Mike2001
• Jan 29, 2019

Hrnh?

 

[B-ROLL]

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• Mike2001
• Jan 29, 2019

Hrnh?

The Moiré has two faces

 

[Kyrsten Brad]

Just because they shouldn't, doesn't mean they will not. After all, did the world really need a shot for shot rema3ke of Psycho?

Ditto for the 1978 remake of The Big Sleep (1948).

Though i did enjoy Robert Mitchum's take on Bogie's Philip Marlowe.

 

[Robin9]

Hey! It's not Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe; it's Raymond Chandler's!

 

[Kyrsten Brad]

Hey! It's not Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe; it's Raymond Chandler's!

Aahh, point taken. I can agree with that.