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Auction History Result 2h031 MALTESE FALCON LC '41 best image of smoking Humphrey Bogart threatening effete Peter Lorre! Date Sold 9/8/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Maltese Falcon, the classic 1941 John Huston romantic detective crime film noir ("A story as explosive as his blazing automatics"; "Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, Author of 'The Thin Man'"; "Screen Play by John Huston"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Humphrey Bogart (as Sam Spade), Mary Astor (as Brigid O'Shaughnessy), Gladys George (as Iva Archer), Peter Lorre (as Joel Cairo), Barton MacLane (as Lt. Dundy), Lee Patrick (as Effie), Sydney Greenstreet (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Kasper Gutman), Ward Bond (as Tom Polhaus), Jerome Cowan (as Miles Archer), and Elisha Cook Jr. (as Wilmer Cook, the "gunsel"). Note that this was the SECOND re-make of this movie (it had been made in 1931 under the original title, and in 1936 as "Satan Met a Lady", starring Bette Davis in the lead role, but it was THIS version by John Huston, with his screenplay that closely followed the Dashiell Hammett novel, with superlative acting, which is an all-time classic) Note that some of the U.S. posters for this movie used images of Bogart from the 1941 film "High Sierra" (the same is true of some posters for "All Through the Night"!). Note that in all three of these movies (The Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, and High Sierra), Humphrey Bogart only got the lead part because George Raft turned down the lead in all three! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that lobby cards from this classic movie have always been difficult to obtain! We have only auctioned seven of them over our many years of auctioning, and there have only been two in the last nine years, and both of those were four years ago, and this is the first we have had them since then (and we again have two, in separate auctions of course). Condition: very good. The card has a pair of tiny staple holes in the bottom left corner and one tiny pinhole in the upper right border. There are some faint smudges, scuffs, and tiny stains around the edges, and a few faint scuffs within the image (but not in the heads of the stars). The card once had a small piece of tape on the back of the middle of the left and right borders, but the tape is long gone, and it was not put there for a restoration purpose (it has never had any restoration). I can't imagine a collector who would not be thrilled to display this great card on their wall exactly as it is! Learn More about condition grades 
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