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8.00" x 6.50"
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2.00"
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0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 12.00"
Director John Huston Peter Lorre Mary Astor Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941-2016 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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Director John Huston Peter Lorre Mary Astor Humphrey Bogart The Maltese Falcon 1941-2016 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Falcon was writer/director John Huston's directorial debut. He went on to have one of the most distinguished careers in motion pictures, as a writer,... more
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"Falcon" was writer/director John Huston's directorial debut. He went on to have one of the most distinguished careers in motion pictures, as a writer, director and actor.
After Spencer Tracy bowed out Huston wrote and delivered the eulogy at Bogey's funeral service in January 1857.
"The Maltese Falcon" is generally considered to be the first film noir, although a case could be made for the RKO Radio 1940 production of "Stranger on the Third Floor" with Peter Lorre.
"In the three film generally rolled around by film historians as the 'first Film Noir,' M, Stranger on the Third Floor and The Maltese Falcon, Peter Lorre stars in all three."
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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