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Auction History Result 1a565 MALTESE FALCON TV 8x10 still R1950s Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet & Cook! Date Sold 10/14/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1950s) Re-Release 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Television Still (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 in 1956, a company called Dominant Pictures was formed, to re-release classic 1930s and 1940s movies to theaters. They primarily released old Warner Bros. movies, and they made duotone one-sheets and lobby sets for those re-releases. Unfortunately, this was at a time when TV was drastically hurting the demand for re-releases of movies in theaters, and a year later, the company was reformed into "A.A.P." (Associated Artists Productions). A.A.P. made a massive deal with both Warner Bros. and Paramount to distribute most of their back catalog of feature films and especially cartoons to TV, and they did not need posters for these TV releases, but they DID make large sets of stills for each feature movie, and they must have had access to the original negatives because the stills are incredibly high quality and look identical to those from the 1930s and 1940s, except the paper is slightly "newer". Many of those A.A.P. stills from 1957 and soon after have a snipe on the back, just like the originals did, but the snipes say "FROM AAP'S WARNER BROS." Sometimes unscrupulous dealers have removed these snipes and then sold the stills as originals from the first release. THIS STILL IS FROM THE A.A.P. TV RE-RELEASE OF THIS MOVIE, likely from 1957 or soon after. Condition: very good. The still is slightly rippled in the left and right because of the snipe on the back. Learn More about condition grades 
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