Oklahoma City Museum of Art to show “The Maltese Falcon” Thursday
Humphrey Bogart plays Sam Spade in “The Maltese Falcon,” showing Thursday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, is presenting a special one-time showing of the film noir classic “The Maltese Falcon” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name, this film was John Huston’s directorial debut, starring the excellent Humphrey Bogart as the private investigator Sam Spade. The San Francisco-set film noir centers on Spade’s frantic search for the jeweled falcon of Malta and his partner’s killer. His pursuit leads him to a group of desperate individuals who also want the peregrine statuette. The film co-stars Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. The snappy hard-boiled dialogue owes much to the original novel published in 1930.
In 1989, the film was selected to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.
For more information, go to www.okcmoa.com/film.
-BAM
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