The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 ), the first film adaptation of the novel, starring George Sanders as gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence

In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, a 65 minute film, the third in the Falcon series of films revolving around Michael Arlen's gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence ( played by George Sanders ), used the plot of Farewell, My Lovely, with Lawrence substituted for Marlowe.

The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 ), starring George Sanders, was also based on the same novel.

* The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 )

The Chandler novel has been filmed once before, in 1942, as The Falcon Takes Over, directed by Irving Reis, part of a film series which featured George Sanders, as The Falcon.

** The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 ) ( based on Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely )

Crack-Up ( 1946 ) is a film noir directed by Irving Reis, remembered for directing many " Falcon " movies of the early 1940s including The Falcon Takes Over.

Over the next 20 years the emphasis was placed on saving historic buildings, such as The Falcon Inn, Dutch Houses and Kings Buildings.

Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).

Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

He is best known for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ).

He also played the lead in both The Falcon and The Saint film series. In 1942, Sanders handed the Falcon role to his brother Tom, in The Falcon's Brother.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

Her final role was a minor part in one of the popular Falcon series, The Falcon's Brother in 1942.

After that he had roles that included playing a sergeant in the Western Stagecoach ( 1939 ) starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne ; an intern in The Return of Dr. X, starring Humphrey Bogart ; a New York reporter in Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ) starring Pat O ' Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Crisp ; a reporter in the post-Hollywood Production Code version of The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor ; and a reporter in Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) starring James Cagney and Walter Huston.

** A Date with the Falcon ( 1942 )

* A Date with the Falcon ( 1942 )

Despite the arrival of serious competitors — namely, the Ford Falcon, Chrysler Valiant, and Japanese cars — in the 1960s, Holden's locally produced large six-and eight-cylinder cars remained Australia's top-selling vehicles.

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

* SBC 11 / 21 ( boardname KXT11 ) Falcon and Falcon Plus — single board computer on a Qbus card implementing the basic PDP-11 instruction set, based on T11 chipset containing 32 KB static RAM, two ROM sockets, three serial lines, 20 bit parallel I / O, three interval timers and a two-channel DMA controller.

The following year, in conjunction with this boxed set, TSR published a trilogy of World of Greyhawk Adventure ( WGA ) modules by Richard & Anne Brown — WGA1 Falcon's Revenge, WGA2 Falconmaster and WGA3 Flames of the Falcon — set in the city and centered around a mysterious villain called The Falcon.

McNamara was a force behind the wildly popular Ford Falcon sedan, introduced in the fall of 1959 — a small, simple and inexpensive-to-produce counter to the large, expensive vehicles prominent in the late 1950s.

However, many analysts believe that even though the TFX project itself was a failure, McNamara was ahead of his time as the trend in fighter design has continued toward consolidation — the F-16 Falcon and F / A-18 Hornet emerged as multi-role fighters, and most modern designs combine many of the roles the TFX would have had.

In 2003, the Falcon Picture Group produced a series of radio dramas based on the series — stating, " In the 1950s many radio series were turned into television series – so why not the reverse?

Rivalry has come predominantly from the Ford Falcon — also locally built.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) had conducted a series of comparative tests in 1971 studying the handling of the 1963 Corvair and four contemporary cars, a Ford Falcon, Plymouth Valiant, Volkswagen Beetle, Renault Dauphine — along with a second generation Corvair with revised suspension design.

* AIM-4 Falcon — radar ( later IR ) guided

NHTSA had conducted a series of comparative tests in 1971 studying the handling of the 1963 Corvair and four contemporary cars — a Ford Falcon, Plymouth Valiant, Volkswagen Beetle, and Renault Dauphine — along with a second-generation Corvair ( with its completely redesigned, independent rear suspension ).

Shortly after its introduction, the Corvair faced competition from the Ford Falcon and Mercury Comet and was plagued by problems — though according to a 1960 Time report, " many were the minor bugs that often afflict a completely new car.

In 1978 — inspired by a dominating 1-2 finish for Falcon hardtops at the 1977 Hardie Ferodo 1000 — Ford introduced the limited-edition Cobra which used the last 400 Hardtop bodyshells ; each Cobra being individually numbered.

Aside from a new name — the ute was referred to as the ' Falcon Longreach '— the XG got a new engine, an exterior facelift, and lost the 3-speed ( or 3-on-the-tree ) column-shift manual transmission ( 3-speed column-Auto remained ) along with 5-speed manual.

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* The Maltese Falcon ( 2001 ), an audio adaptation by the BBC starring Jane Lapotaire, Tom Wilkinson, and Peter Acre was published as an audio book in 2001 and broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2009.

* The Maltese Falcon ( 2005 ), the official authorized stage adaptation, was produced by The Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and premiered in 2007.

2004 saw the release of yet another video game adaptation entitled Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Record of the Holy Demon War.

Elliott's television credits include the role of Jane Wyman's first husband in Falcon Crest, General Padget in Columbo, Harold W. Smith in the 1988 TV adaptation of Remo Williams, Texan millionaire attorney Scotty Demarest in Dallas, and Judge Harold Aldrich in Chicago Hope.

The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, which was previously filmed five years earlier, Pre-Code, under its original title and would be remade again five years later by director John Huston with Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.

" The best novel in the tough tradition I've read since Farewell, My Lovely and possibly since The Maltese Falcon.

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

During her years at Warner Brothers she starred in such pictures as My Past ( 1931 ), Honor of the Family ( 1931 ) and the extremely successful 1931 pre-code version of The Maltese Falcon, which opened to rave reviews.

The first was Crime on My Hands ( 1944 ), written in the first person and mentioning his " Saint " and " Falcon " movies.

* " No fly am I or vulture, that over kill should be my hover My heart rejoices as a Falcon or an Eagle in its own prey Would that other sincere people had been like me, But since in this they have no part, in grief is my heart now plunged.

He did a small amount of work for Marvel during this time, with the cover and a romance story for My Love # 14 ( Nov. 1971 ), a Man-Thing cover and story in Adventure into Fear # 10 ( Oct. 1972 ), two " Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars " stories in Creatures on the Loose # 20-21 ( Nov. 1972-Jan. 1973 ), and virtually his only Marvel superhero story, a 10-page Falcon feature in Captain America # 144 ( Dec. 1971 ).

Future Falcon Crest and Castle co-star Susan Sullivan was in the original pilot ; Brett Cullen, also of Falcon Crest ; Ray Walston, co-star of Bixby's first series, My Favorite Martian ; Brandon Cruz, co-star of The Courtship of Eddie's Father ; Lou Ferrigno, who along with starring as the Hulk, appeared in one episode (" King Of The Beach ") as a different character ; Bixby's ex-wife Brenda Benet ; and in an uncredited role, the bodybuilder and professional wrestler Ric Drasin played the half-transformed Hulk in “ Prometheus " ( parts 1 and 2 ).

Join My Cult is a subversive, satirical novel written by James Curcio and released by New Falcon Publications ( publisher of some notable counter-culture authors such Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and Aleister Crowley ).

The term first was applied to American films in French film magazines in 1946, the year when The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Laura ( 1944 ), Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), and The Woman in the Window were released in France.