Just picked up the 1931 version of "The Maltese Falcon".

[ificandream]

Bought it on Vudu (it's $5 if you buy two others in their 3 for $15 mix and match. I think it's $7.99 if you buy it separately). Anyway, I was completely unfamiliar with it. It's quite different from the Bogart version. It's very typical pre-code. For one, Sam Spade is quite the womanizer.

Here's a scene:

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[Harker]

1. That's a corker.

Fun to see Dwight Frye as Wilmer.

[ificandream]

2. I'm still watching it, but so far I really like it. (I'm a big fan of pre-code, anyway.)

[Easterncedar]

3. Interesting

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try to see it. But can anyone beat Sidney Greenstreet?

[bahboo]

4. dude is a lech.....mercy....

[progressoid]

5. Haven't seen it yet. But have been watching the new series, "Monsieur Spade"

Twenty years after the events of the novel "The Maltese Falcon," Sam Spade has retired in the small town of Bozouls in southern France; it's 1963, the war has ended, and in a very short time, so, too, will Spade's tranquility.