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Sam Spade Jr. (son) Religion. Christian. Nationality. American. Sam Spade is a fictional character and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett 's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. [2]
Humphrey Bogart on stage, screen, radio and television. 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 of illustrator Maud Humphrey and ...
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 ...
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 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.
Big-game fish or blue water game fish are large pelagic saltwater fish such as tuna, tarpon, grouper and billfish (sailfish, marlin and swordfish). Occasionally other predatory fishes such as sharks, barracuda and dolphinfish are also pursued. Large powerful freshwater fish such as alligator gar, lake sturgeon and flathead catfish can also be ...
Pit spawning, also referred to as substrate breeding, is a behavior in cichlid fish in which a fish builds a pit in the sand or ground, where a pair court and consequently spawn. [67] Many different factors go into this behavior of pit spawning, including female choice of the male and pit size, as well as the male defense of the pits once they ...
Swordfish. The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill[5] in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill. They are a popular sport fish of the billfish category, though elusive. Swordfish are elongated, round-bodied, and lose all teeth and scales by adulthood.