A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

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.

Edeson would subsequently photograph The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), widely regarded as the first major film noir of the classic era.

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 ).

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.

Debuting as a director with The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), John Huston followed with the major noirs Key Largo ( 1948 ) and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon.

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Raft turned down the lead in John Huston's directorial debut The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), due to its being a cleaned up version of the pre-Production Code The Maltese Falcon ( 1931 ), his contract stipulating that he did not have to appear in remakes.

Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.

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.

Bogart performed radio adaptations of some of his best known films, such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

Following Raft's departure, the studio gave Bogart the role of Roy Earl in the 1941 film High Sierra, which helped establish him as one of the studio's top stars ; following High Sierra, Bogart was also given a role in John Huston's successful 1941 remake of the studio's 1931 failure, The Maltese Falcon.

* 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 ).

Films such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are considered classics and helped launch the careers of legendary actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

For his first directing assignment, Huston chose Dashiell Hammett's detective thriller, The Maltese Falcon, a film which had already failed at the box office in two earlier versions by Warners.

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask.

* BBC Radio 4: " The Maltese Falcon " ( 2001 ) — starring Tom Wilkinson, Jane Lapotaire, and Nickolas Grace

The ABS 2001 Census reported that 43 % were of Southern or Eastern European origin, with 10 % of Maltese extraction alone and about 20 % from the Balkan region, including Albanians, Bosnians, Croatians, Macedonians and Serbs.

Marsaxlokk won the Maltese First Division during the 2001 / 02 season, and were promoted as champions to the Maltese Premier League, where the club would appear for the first time in their history.

Another award went back to Marsaxlokk when striker Daniel Bogdanovic finished as the leagues top goalscorer with 31 goals in 28 appearances, and ended the season one goal short of Danilo Doncic's Maltese record of 32 goals in a season, set while playing for Valletta during the 2001 / 02 season.

Australia's Roman Catholic Church had publicly apologised in 2001 to British and Maltese child migrants who suffered abuse including rape, whippings and slave labour in religious institutions.

An underwater survey commissioned by the Maltese government in 2001 discovered the lake's depths were even deeper than previously assumed.

Szarabajka has also contributed his voice to several audio books, notably " Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates " by Tom Robbins, for which he won the 2001 Audie Award for Best Fiction, unabridged, Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz, several roles in a Grammy nominated audio dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, Rising Sun by Michael Crichton, Nelson Algren's Walk on the Wild Side, and the much lauded The Mark of Zorro opposite Val Kilmer.

* Democratic Alternative ( Malta ) ( Maltese: Alternattiva Demokratika ), the Maltese Green party

The Road Runner cartoons, in addition to the cartoons that are considered his masterpieces ( all written and conceived by Michael Maltese ), Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, and What's Opera, Doc?

:* Maltese uses a C, G, and Z with a dot over them ( Ċ, Ġ, Ż ), and also has an H with an extra horizontal bar.

The German traveler Hieronymus Megiser includes a list of Maltese words in his Thesaurus Polyglottus ( published in 1603 ), and also in his more celebrated work Propugnaculum Europae, published in 1606.

Malta has two official languages -- Maltese ( a Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic and heavily influenced by Sicilian and Italian ), and English.

* Spin ( band ), a band from the Maltese Islands

It is held during the week leading up to Ash Wednesday, and typically includes masked balls, fancy dress and grotesque mask competitions, lavish late-night parties, a colourful, ticker-tape parade of allegorical floats presided over by King Carnival ( Maltese: ir-Re tal-Karnival ), marching bands and costumed revellers.

In 2008, he voiced the character of Wilmer in an audio dramatization of The Maltese Falcon that also featured Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann.

* The Maltese Falcon ( 2009 ) — Grammy-nominated audio play, starring Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh and Edward Herrmann, produced by The Hollywood Theater of the Ear and published by Blackstone Audio.

These include a novel, Mission: Impractical by David A. McIntee and two Big Finish Productions audio plays, The Holy Terror and The Maltese Penguin, both written by Rob Shearman and featuring Robert Jezek as Frobisher.

The Maltese Penguin is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Further publications which were issued in the wake of the 2004 biography were, namely, Jien, Manwel Dimech ( I, Manuel Dimech ) by Mark Montebello ( an abridged biography in Maltese published by Daritama in 2006 ), Manwel Dimech: Fi kliemi ( Manuel Dimech: In my own words ) by Mark Montebello ( an audio book in Maltese published by Kottoner 98fm in 2010 ), and Manwel Dimech: Ivan u Praskovja u Kitbiet Ohra ( Manuel Dimech: Ivan and Prascovia and Other Writings ) edited by Mark Montebello ( a wide selection of Dimech's writings published by Sensiela Kotba Socjalisti, SKS, in 2011 ).

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

In the 2002 adaptation starring Jim Caviezel, the château was represented by St. Mary's Tower on Comino, the smallest Maltese island.

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 ).

Aljotta, for example, a fish broth with plenty of garlic, herbs, and tomatoes is the Maltese adaptation of bouillabaisse.

Delisle encounters former colleagues working at SEK Studio on an adaptation of Corto Maltese comics.

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.