Catching up with the August 13 movie: The Maltese Falcon. I think I've put off writing about this because I don't have a whole lot to say about it. Bogart is Sam Spade. There's also Mary Aster, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. The falcon is a macguffin. It's brilliant. That about sums it up.
I never realized before how closely the voice of Ren from Ren and Stimpy was based on Peter Lorre. I guess it should have been obvious all along, but it wasn't until Lorre loses his temper and starts screaming "You imbecile! You bloated fathead!" at Greenstreet that I caught on. It's pure Ren. Heck, he even looks a bit like Ren.
Although they say at the end that Lorre and Greenstreet are captured by the police, Georg and I always like to imagine that they get away and go on to Istanbul as planned. I wish they had made another movie about the adventures of Joel Cairo and the Fat Man. What I wouldn't pay to see that movie.
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