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Auction History Result 6t747 MALTESE FALCON 8x10.25 still '31 best c/u of Cortez & The Black Bird's shadow, super rare! Date Sold 3/23/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Maltese Falcon, the 1931 Roy Del Ruth romantic crime detective mystery melodrama (based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett) starring Bebe Daniels (as Ruth Wonderly), Ricardo Cortez (as Sam Spade), Dudley Digges (as Casper Gutman), Una Merkel (as Effie Perrine), Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd, Otto Matieson (as Dr. Joel Cairo), and Dwight Frye (as Wilmer Cook). Note that this movie was re-made just five years later under a new title of "Satan Met a Lady", and Bette Davis played the lead role, and of course, five years after that, Warners made it a third time, reverting to the original title, and this one starred Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Mary Astor, and became one of the best remembered movies of all time! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is from the 1931 first version of this movie, and original 1931 movie paper of any sort is incredibly scarce. Also note that we have never seen or heard of this wonderful image (showing Cortez as Sam Spade standing by the shadow of "The Black Bird") before, but it certainly wonderfully illustrates the movie, in a very surreal way! Also note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm]. Note that not only does our current auction of 999 stills represent the absolute finest selection we have ever had in terms of quality of image and film, but it also represents the finest CONDITION group of stills we have ever had! Half of the stills are graded as being in "very good to fine" condition (which is our highest grade for vintage stills), but we were very strict on this, because otherwise, perhaps two thirds or three quarters of the stills would have received this grade! We downgraded stills to "very good" for pretty minor defects, and many of these might have received our "very good to fine" grade in the past. And the half of the stills that ARE in very good to fine condition would likely be graded "mint" by any other auction! This is the finest group of stills I have ever seen, and I can only hope to equal it someday! Condition: very good. The bottom left corner was creased or detached and someone put clear tape on the back of that area. There is a faint yellow stain in the middle of the right of the still in the blank white background area (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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