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The Maltese Falcon (Warner Brothers, 1931). One Sheet (27 X 41). , Sam Spade calls it the stuff that dreams are made of. Caspar Gutman refers to it as a rara avis, a rare bird. Both of them are talking about the Maltese Falcon, the priceless, jewel-encrusted statue that is at the heart of Dashiell Hammetts seminal noir novel of the same name, but they could as easily have been referring to this recently unearthed one sheet for the first film adaptation of this classic tale, released in 1931, starring Ricardo Cortez. Most people are familiar with the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart in the iconic role of Sam Spade, but fewer are aware that the Bogart version was actually the third time that Hammetts novel had been brought to the screen. In 1930, what would become one of Hammetts best known works was serialized in the pages of Black Mask, a popular detective fiction pulp of the day. An immediate hit, it didnt take long for Warner Brothers to see the potential in Hammetts story, especially as they were beginning to have success with their line of popular crime films such as Little Caesar (1931) and The Public Enemy (1931). Faithfully adapted from Hammetts novel, the film starred Ricardo Cortez as private eye Sam Spade, one of detective literatures greatest creations. Born Joseph Krantz to Austrian parents, the future Sam Spade had been reinvented as a Latin lover when he changed his name to Ricardo Cortez, part of Paramounts efforts to groom him as a successor to Rudolph Valentino during the silent era. Although his career as a heartthrob never took off, Cortez remained a popular actor throughout most of the 1930s before retiring from Hollywood to take on a successful position as a Wall Street investor. When the studio tried to re-release the film in 1936, they were unable to obtain the approval of the Production Code, owing to such lewd content as Bebe Daniels nude bathtub scene, overt suggestio
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