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Humphrey Bogart on stage, screen, radio and television. Bogart in Brother Orchid, 1940. Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) [1][2] was an American actor and producer whose 36-year career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. He had been born into an affluent family in New York's Upper West Side, [3] the first-born child and only son ...
Budget. $5-6 million [ 1 ] Box office. $28,221,552 [ 2 ] The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American mystery comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. [ 3 ] It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a parody of Humphrey Bogart. [ 3 ] The film is a parody of Bogart films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.
From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of The Maltese Falcon. [5] Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic ...
Sam Spade is back on the case. The iconic private detective famously played by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon is coming to AMC in Monsieur Spade (premiering this Sunday at 9/8c), with Clive ...
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) The Maltese Falcon. (1941 film) The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston [3] in his directorial debut. The film was based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and is a remake of the 1931 film of the same name. [4][5][6] It stars Humphrey Bogart as ...
Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. [1] A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, [2] and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation. [citation needed]
The Adventures of Sam Spade. The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946–1949, and finally for 75 episodes on NBC in 1949–1951.
Conflict is a 1945 American black-and-white suspense film noir made by Warner Brothers. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt, produced by William Jacobs from a screenplay by Arthur T. Horman and Dwight Taylor, based on the story The Pentacle by Alfred Neumann and Robert Siodmak. It starred Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, and Sydney Greenstreet.