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Auction History Result 3p115 MALTESE FALCON 8 Swiss LCs '60s Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, directed by John Huston! Date Sold 9/9/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Undated (probably from the 1960s first release of this film in Switzerland) Original Vintage Theatrical Swiss Lobby Card (LC; measures 13" x 17 1/4" [33 x 44 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 these lobby cards measure 13" x 17 1/4" [33 x 44 cm]. Also note that these Swiss lobby cards were made by the distributor creating a set of identical stiff board printed backings with printed information about the movie, with a blank space for a still, and then they would attach a number of original U.S. stills to those boards, thus creating a set of Swiss lobby cards. Note that the board has metal grommets inserted into each corner, to make displaying of these Swiss lobby cards far easier. UPDATED 09/03/2012: Note that a knowledgeable collector tells us that these cards are from the 1970s first release of this film in Switzerland and NOT a 1970s re-release as we initially listed. Condition: good to very good. Each of the cards has pinholes and wear in the corners. Some of them have varying amounts of scuffs within the still (see our super-sized images). Learn More about condition grades 
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