Casablanca + The Maltese Falcon

Casablanca + The Maltese Falcon

Casablanca + The Maltese Falcon

Here's looking at you, kid. Join us for a Monday Double featuring two of the best films of the golden age of Hollywood. 

Casablanca
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.

  • Winner 1943 Academy Awards Outstanding Motion Picture
  • Winner 1943 Academy Awards Best Director, Michael Curtiz
  • Winner 1943 Academy Awards Best Screenplay

One of the AFI's most important films of all time, and making their 100 Years...100 Movies list in the #2 slot. As well as 100 Thrills, 100 Passions, 100 Songs, and 100 Movie Quotes. 

"A peerless example of Hollywood studio moviemaking, director Michael Curtiz turning the Warner backlot into a gloriously romantic vision of WW2-era Morocco crammed with real-life European exiles and larger-than-life character actors" - Total Film

"The film still works beautifully: its complex propagandist subtexts and vision of a reluctantly martial America’s ‘stumbling’ morality still intrigue, just as Bogart’s cult reputation among younger viewers still obtains." - TimeOut London


"Seventy years on, this great romantic noir is still grippingly powerful: a movie made at a time when it was far from clear the Nazis were going to lose. " - The Guardian

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The Maltese Falcon
Part of Roger Ebert's series The Great Movies and cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain as the first major film noir, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam's partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese falcon.

"The Maltese Falcon is frighteningly good evidence that the British (Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, et al.) have no monopoly on the technique of making mystery films. A remake of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled mystery, it is rich raw beef right off the U.S. range." - Time

"The strange, dreamlike tension of the film escalates with each new confrontation, each new tailing, each new beating, with Gutman and Cairo shot from a queasy low angle, and the nightmare culminates in a gripping series of closeups on each strained face." -The Guardian


"This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form. Unfolding a most intriguing and entertaining murder mystery, picture displays outstanding excellence in writing, direction, acting and editing--combining in overall as a prize package of entertainment for widest audience appeal. " - Variety


The Maltese Falcon received three nominations at the 14th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Sydney Greenstreet for Best Supporting Actor, and John Huston for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as placement on the AFI AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies list, including a spot in the AFI's Top 10 Mystery Films of all time, at #6. 

Release Date: Nov 11, 2024
Rating: PG
Runtime: 202 mins
Director: John Huston
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Gladys George

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