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I'm excited to be on a podcast now. Oh no, it must be really fun for you. No web series. No, different, different stage, different outputs, really fun for you yeah.
This is one of the top kids. Chris has been influenced by classic film Nois today so be expected to hear some changes that he's there for you. I've got loads of course written down as well. I'll have you.
Oh, some of them which I found weird. Well, you guys are joining us today because we are in our classy part of the NERDY OF NORTH month. We've got all classy. Look at us being all black and white and classy.
Looks good doesn't it? Chris is really intrigued by the fact that everything that he has that is green is now red. Do you want to show the people you like that? I'll put a letter on that's green.
His signs in the background are green. Yeah, Chris has been absolutely fascinated for the past 10 minutes just finding stuff that he can turn from green to red. But yeah, hi everyone. Welcome.
It's Sunday and thanks for everyone in the chat. Hi everyone. I'm just not even bothering. I can't, I can't horse and take in Lee at the same time.
So today is my choice of classy movies. We're doing the, I can't remember the, 1941's the Maltese Falcon. So hey, hey, so I will do the disclaimer and then we're going to crack on open the Maltese Falcon because I am so intrigued to hear Chris's opinions on his first ever classic Hollywood movie. First ever.
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Because we can all agree to disagree and fandom. So let's keep it fun. Keep a kind and keep the toxic behaviour out of her notism. Don't be a phallus.
Ah, that's a good one. I like that. Didn't want to rip off down completely. Yeah, don't confuse us because I'm not remembering.
I'll stop just going into Monster Land and like, yeah, I'll completely lose this podcast altogether. Right. The Maltese Falcon. So I do have the taglines for this movie.
And just like any other classic movie that we've done, these really are coming from horses and newspapers and, you know, not the classic like taglines we would get to do. So the first one, it's thrilling. It's chilling. It's the most baffling mystery story in years.
Isn't it? It wasn't. Another great story from the author of The Thin Man. So cast by the music.
Oh gosh, killer Bogard, a guy without a conscience. Mary Asda, a dean without a heart. That was printed in the Berkeley Daily Gazette in California on the 21st of January 1942. And Humphrey Bogard, the most ruthless lover you'll ever meet.
Mary Asda, the most exciting woman he ever met. That was in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, which is in Canada on the 7th of April 1942. The Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Yeah.
Get out of the tape here. Absolutely brilliant. Humphrey Bogard takes both guns and gals in stride till he meets Mary Asda, a kind of menace Bogard never met before. Detroit got a kind of good like taking the both guns.
That was a good call. That was Detroit, Michigan, the 6th of November 1941. A story as explosive as his blazing automatics. What?
Where the hell does old him come in? I was sort of confused by that. And he's as fast on the draw as he is in the drawing room. The last one.
He's a killer when he hates. He's he doesn't kill anyone. And what is it's going to do with the falcon? Nothing.
That's weird because he doesn't kill anyone. Someone is killed. Oh yeah, I love that scene as well. So, it was my first view into your first view of not just this but of a classic Hollywood movie.
What did you think? Right. I liked it. It took a bit to get used to the talk in it.
Like the speech patterns because I don't think any of them take breaths in between words or like pauses. I noticed there was a couple of weird cuts which I never normally normally notice. Like comfy up to be sitting on a table. In the next scene you'll be getting up on the table like in the wrong order.
Yeah. But I forgive that a little bit. But yeah, I like to enjoy this. I'm glad I watched it now.
I'm shocked, mine, because with Paul not joining us tonight, I actually give you the option to do something else. And I was quite taken aback that you wanted to actually watch it. Because it's not it's not a name that is quite common amongst classic Hollywood. If you don't know your classic Hollywood films.
But this is my first time watching it and my first time watching a hungry boy guy film as well, which really threw me because I again, like Chris said, I didn't realize how fast he could talk. He was so quick. And it took a while to be a really yeah, he could spit some rhymes. And it took us a while for me.
He has to kind of register. But once it did, and I was fine tuned into him, like it was, he didn't want him to leave the screen. And he to be fair, he barely didn't. He was in it.
I'd say 99% of the movie. Yeah. And there was directed by John Houston. This is John Houston's first ever film.
And I was able to go on to direct five more with him for people, God and Pete law as well. And what the with John kind of he didn't use his name because John comes from the John Houston, the father of Angelica Houston and Danny Houston. He didn't quite use his name, but his father, who actually is in this movie. And he was a very famous actor in his own right.
And I'm trying to find out where he is. Sorry. He was the district attorney. He's only in a few seconds blink and you will miss him.
John Hamilton was a John Hamilton. No, sorry. Me, God, nor Walter Houston. Sorry.
He was Captain Jacoby. Right. That's why I got confused with the district attorney because he's only in a few seconds. And he's the, he's the patriarch.
He has a full generations of the Houston acting family, which obviously includes Angelica and Danny and John, who's the director. It was him and his name, who kind of got this film. Bring it. That will film pretty much.
Yeah. But it was, he kind of, he knew what he was doing. He put his name out there. He put it to the studio that this was going to be his film with his son.
And he would be acting in it a lot like, and he didn't. He took up stuff. He's not even credited. Right.
Just once he once he's done about the foot in the door, he then just took a step back and just let him do it. But he did kind of use his name to gain to gain favor with the studio. But hey, John Houston is a talent. He's gone and done some absolutely amazing films.
So, and he works hard. I can understand nepotism to a degree, but if you're going to work for it, like, there's some hard work and nebulbabies out there. I think I'm one of them. Yeah.
Yeah. You are a nebulbaby yourself. Well, moderately hard work and nebulbabies. And I do have a bit more on the production of this.
This is quite a straightforward production. And a lot of laughs, a lot of practical jokes between the cast and crew because these are all these are friends. It's just like a, like a 2025 practical jokes where you will run from the corner on like 1940s practical jokes where I'll put a bit of cyanide in your tab or something. Oh, say night.
So they get explodes, dynamite even. And I'm trying to find it because I had like a whole thing. But yeah, they did a lot of practical jokes between each other. John Houston being the instigator of quite a lot of them.
And, well, that was a Humphrey Bogart and his wardrobe. All his clothes. All his own clothes. And it was actually common practice that that Warner Brothers liked actors to use their own clothes because it kind of saved money on the budget.
Yeah. So all them fantastic suits that you see Humphrey walking in are all his own. Oh, it was also I'm just spitting out facts here. I wonder if that's why I am Cairo was like angry, you know, when he pops him first and he's knows he's like mouth starts bleeding.
He's like, Oh, you messed up my suit. What do you mean? Okay, Cairo getting hit in the face. Where did it where exactly did she hit him?
Did she get him on the shoe? Is that why he had to get massive on the toes? Do you know what in the in the first part where he first meets Cairo? He goes at the office and he's just like, Oh, I'll give you a 10 grand if you find this eagle.
And then he's just like, I'll search your office to impose it a tiny is good. And then he's just like, a pal and just hits him. That's probably the funniest scene in the whole film. And it's just how great people are actually is as I always thought of him as like a more of a serious but he's very comedic like without even trying.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Should we tell people the plot of this because they might be very confused by the whole Maltese falcon.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Before I start, they getting into more of me facts.
Maybe it might be an idea to tell people the plot of this because it's it's very straight. It's not what I thought. I didn't think it had anything to do with the statue of a falcon. Yeah.
So Sam's beard who is on free ball guard gets a visit by a woman who wants right. She wants them to find her sister's boyfriend. This is what she initially tells them to find her sister's boyfriend to then rough them up a bit because she wants to then get her sister away from said boyfriend and Sam's beard again. His partner, Miles Archer, is taking a bit of a fancien to this lady who calls herself Ruth Wardley and he's like, yeah, I'll take it.
Miles gets killed and off screen sawed as the boy sawed as the sister's boyfriend who was called Floyd. It's a horrible name as well to say. There's me. Floyd.
It's like I'm falling up. Yeah, it is. And Sam then finds out that Ruth Wandley is not Ruth Wandley. She's actually Bridget or Sean as he who this is very confusing who wanted to have Floyd taken out because why I can't remember why did you want to fly taken out?
Isn't it because he was a dangerous man or something? Something like that. It was something silly and quite forgettable because then all of a sudden you introduced a Cairo who's played by King Law who then's like on about this statue that he wants him to retreat and Bridget's got something to do with it. Yeah.
So this statue is something that is it's like a m take a holy grail of collect items and it's worth millions. There's a real thing as well. Yeah, I didn't go into too much detail as to like about the actual statue itself. Well, when I googled into it, you know, the opening screen where it tells you and it's like in 1539, the night's time as a mulka, it just came up with us.
So I'm just going to assume without taking further. That's true. Hey, great. It's actually on the Wikipedia for this movie as well.
It's like carved out so you can read it. There's something to do with Charles V of Spain and yeah, this statue was like worth Lords and Cairo wants Sam to get it. But that scene when he kind of likes it, I'll give you this amount of money to go and get this this statue and then Sam knocks him out, takes his gun. They have like a proper like friendly chat.
Yeah. And then he does it again with the gun. He's like, can I have my gun please? And then he goes, and then he just puts it back up again.
I just like that with him. Comprise just like, Oh shit, I should have seen this coming and started laughing. You can go on you. Oh, I'm pretty well, guys not scared of anything in this movie at all, especially the guy who keeps following him.
Oh, and Wilma Wilma. Oh, Wilma, well, we'll start crying. Yeah, surprise me. I was like, this is the 40s where like people are meant to be like toxic, toxic, masculine.
And you look, there's a camera shot of him going, this is two tears coming down. So sad. Yeah. So Sam said on this, like wild goose chase of trying to get this statue, which he eventually does get his hands on.
And this is before he is met and the fat man, who again is after who works with Cairo, who's after it. And it turns out that it's all a fake. Yeah. That that seems like basically one of these I can't remember who it was when a Humphrey's office with this, it looks like a pack of meat or something, wrapped in newspaper, dumps on the table and then he sends it to a safe place and then he goes to meet the fat plant that but when he's opening it, he scrapes it with a knife to check because it's meant to be covered in lacquer.
And this e this this bird thing is meant to be encrusted with all these rare diamonds and gems. That's what makes it valuable. And he's like, Oh, it's been caught in like a ship and purposes. Yeah, he starts scratching it and he's just like, it's a weird scene where you're saying one with a knife and then the next is just like, it's fake.
We shouldn't be sad about it. Let's just go to Istanbul. Yeah. It's such a shift in the way that the fat man, what's his name?
Goodman. Where is he? I've got all the covers here. Cast by Gutman.
Who is who is commonly known as the fat man? Yeah. Either to get my funny born when I heard when I found out what he's really and what, I was like, Gutman, really? And so that really is that it's such a topsy-turvy movie because you initially start out with the with what's our fears?
Mary? No, Ruth, who initially comes in one and one thing. And then out of that, Sam's partner, who he got over very quickly. Did you see how fast he took Miles's name off the detective agency?
It's, I thought it's 1941 or two or something, isn't it? It's like World War Two times in it. 44. So I don't know if they're just like, it's drilled into them.
Oh yeah, people die, just move on kind of thing that wartime mentality. Or if it's just like, I can't be asked to act to this greasy scene, I'll just skip it. Yeah, he was so quick to get over there to his partner, Miles. Oh yeah, we totally forgot about the fact that Miles's wife or soon to be wife was having an affair with Sam and she, Sam wanted to be with him, but he wouldn't because of Miles.
It was such like a little love triangle, but she kept grasping him into everyone because they were trying to pin the murder of Miles and Floyd Thursby onto Sam and it was Miles's girlfriend who kept doing it. Yeah, yeah. I'm just doing this film, any justice really, I'm like, because it's all it really is like, it is, it's so fast paced. It's an hour and 40 minutes long and they're getting at least one, two, three stories in there.
You've got the Miles Archer story, you've got the Bridget D'Oshon as he won, you've got Chiro, you've got Gutman, you've got Wilmer. I like the Wilmer and Daddy Kaspar, what are you called? Kaspar Gutman. Yeah, the Wilman, Daddy Gutman, the trail scene.
When the one who's Wilmer is an M4 guy, the guy starts crying. He's like, I couldn't, he's like a son to me, you knock some out, he's like, okay, you can have him. You can have him, yeah, he didn't take very long to be convinced, but it doesn't take him very long after he finds out that the falcon is fake. After all of that, very nice, Gutman was about to put out a lot of money to get this statue, yet didn't hand a penny over.
So maybe that's why he wasn't so bothered when he found out it was fake, because he's like, I still got my money and still go to Istanbul and go and find it and him and Chiro just run off into the sunset. But then Sam is very quick to be like, they've run off, but you Bridget, you killed Miles and Floyd. I love that part because I was like, oh, they're gonna run off into the sunset at the end. And he's like, I'll be ashamed if they're hung yet, you've got a pretty little neck.
And he's like, I'll wait for you, or maybe I won't, but maybe I will wait for you. He doesn't give her a definite answer at all. No, I know. Kick out of the cube, I don't like Bridget.
Bridget, even No, no. And Mary asked her as crazy as her. I took the thing, she Bridget wasn't that crazy, she was playing a game that she literally had, there was no reason for her to be in it. Like, none at all.
Yeah. Yeah. What I got at the same point in the story. Exactly.
They floored her as bees. The reason why he's being brought into it is because he had the falcon, he is the last known person to either have seen it. And Floyd was her boyfriend. You don't really need her for any of this.
She didn't, she didn't know where it was. It was Sam who found it. Is it not? Does Sam need a love interest?
Is that why she's in? Maybe, maybe. Well, Mary asked as offspring variety was instrumental in her casting. She was, she had been in several scandals concerning affairs she had been involved in during her marriage.
When she first came to Hollywood, she had an affair with a much older John Barrymore, who is the patriarch of the Barrymore family, who is part of, you know, Drew Barrymore. Yeah. I thought you could say my instant thought was Michael Barrymore. Barrymore.
Not quite. And her husband had been killed in a plane crash and she'd been married multiple times, which was considered scandalous behavior in those times. She was also an alcoholic. During a bit of custody here and a diary she kept recounting her various sexual exploits was made public.
Her former secretary had stolen and given it to her soon to be former husband, Franklin Thorpe, whose attorney leaked copies of the cherry pick passages basically to make her look terrible. Yeah. I don't want to read that. You know, this is why this is why Old Hollywood fascinated life out of me because the scandals are really scandalous.
They are juicy as anything. So yeah, for the times anyway, like nowadays anyone would ban the eyelid if someone had posted sexual exploits online. You'd probably get done for it like, but I don't know. I can't think I should get famous because of the sex tape.
That another distributed? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Pretty much. Yeah. It's just a point of publicity. And like Paul's only fine, but yeah, he's just sorted.
Oh, good to know. He's not going to defend himself. So yeah, the most interesting character for me. And I don't know if you agree was comfortable, God, right?
Bogey as he was doing to his friends. Why? Yeah. I mean, I've got a different character for different reasons.
I was just wondering why Tom freeze your favorite. I just think it's these quick wits. And he's and he's quick thinking. Like when Wilma's walking down the corridor with him, he's so quick to like literally put his hands in Wilma's pockets, take his guns and kind of like put his like make Wilma put his hands over his head.
He's just he was and he did that quite a few times. Very and he also pointed out at the beginning that he doesn't use guns himself. He doesn't agree with them, but he was so quick to get everyone's guns out of their hands. I just thought he was very quick.
Obviously his fast talk and helped as well. And I don't know. I feel like he knew exactly what was going on from the very beginning. I don't know.
Yeah. There's something about that end speech that makes me think he had her clocked right from the start. And he just got along it. I didn't trust as soon as I saw.
I was like, if you like, it was a few times though, not me, but three war hobs. Whoops. Wobs. Borgie as he was called.
Oh, Borgie. Do you know what my favourite line about that is? Do you know when them, was it, um, Bridget starts talking about a relied at the sofa in, when it's, when she comes to clear out, she tells them it should be lying. And they're like, hmm, we didn't believe you, but we'll believe the 200 dollars he gave me.
It was when he also went even trying to get out of the truth and she just kept going, oh, and that's a lie. And yeah, that's a lie too. Like, I didn't believe a word that one was saying. Yeah.
I mean, it's probably good as an actress, as an actress, but I hated the character. Yeah. And then it was like, oh, the questions are getting too hard. Oh, no.
Oh, I don't feel too well. Please, please stop. Stop. Yeah, she was pathetic.
So who was yours? Is your favourite character? Oh, right. Cas by Gugman.
I think he's right. He's the right kind of like dick. Um, because he's paid, um, he paid some 10 grand to fight. They agreed on it and he's under Gugman, I got him a bit.
And he had this envelope full of cash. It was a thousand dollar bills, was it? Yeah, something like us. So he says, oh, I want to do business properly.
And he gives Sam the envelope and just says, there's actually nine here trying to put a bit of a wedge in between him and them, Bridget. And then he looks at them, Bridget, obviously figures him out. And he's just like, you've just popped that thousand dollars up here. And he's just like, I'll never tell.
He's straight away. He's like, it was just a joke to see what you do. I just love that little character. It's when he, um, he drugs Sam.
And he's, and he's sitting in this, he's sitting in this like lavish silk, like, dress and gown. Oh, just beautiful, by the way. And then all of a sudden, one sounds like passed out. It just kicks.
It's how he takes it. He saw, like, grand, like, takes his dress and gown off, dumps it, and then has this full-on suit underneath and it's like, let's go boys. I've noticed in this film, oh, by the way, just about that thing where he does get drunk, Wilma gets a proper slide that will boot in Sam's face. Did you see how he kicked him?
Yeah, it looked real. Because I was like, it's, is he like Nickity's food at the bait line or something? I can't quite go for it. Sam really did deserve that kickball, but that felt like, that really felt like, I mean, look at the, the, he really tortured Wilma, like the minute he met him.
It's like he had no, it was completely like no patience with him whatsoever, but he was just rippin the piss out of him from the second he met him. Oh, Wilma, he didn't stand a chance. Nah, he just couldn't keep up. He wasn't the definition of like a goon, wasn't he?
Yeah, but a really bad one. Yeah, but he's got a newspaper. Oh, and doesn't he like, just sit down next to him when he first meets Wilma with a newspaper and just starts reading next to him? And it's like, isn't that the person you're meant to be watching?
He's literally just sat down next to you. They have baddie, you're job. Yeah, and when he looks at the window, he's just standing there staring up at his window like that. Obviously, like there's been nothing happening at the window.
So he's just sat there for hours, stood there staring at this closed window. That shot was brilliant though, when he went to go and kiss Bridget and he just turns his head and looks directly out the window at Wilma or the other side of the road. It was some fantastic shots in this mind. John Houston really knows how to put a film together.
Did you get a good copy of this? Because I had to keep changing links and one would be grainy, one would be clear. No, it was quite good. It was really clear.
I think I got the, because I sent you a trailer, because one of those did a remastered one. Yeah, and I think I watched that one. But I also had to use multiple links. Yeah, it just kept good note all the time.
And I went on a massive rabbit hole with Hombre Bogart after this. The man has a very interesting life. He was born on December 25th, 1899. He died January 14, 1957.
And in that, my god, he lived, he lived a life. He was married four times. His parents were, he comes from money. So his parents, his dad was a surgical doctor and his mom was a very famous illustrator.
And one of her illustrations was of a, it was for a baby, what you call like advertisement. And it was a very, it was a baby Hombre. And it was just advertising this baby company. And she made more money than her husband did in two years of just on the back of that picture.
And it set them up for life. But he didn't have a great relationship with his parents. They were very, like, former, like he didn't call his mom, mommy called her by a real name. And because she didn't particularly like it, he had two sisters.
He ended up going off to the just shooting off to boarding school in the end. But yeah, he was married four times. First two wives, you know, get married very quickly, divorce incredibly quicker. And his second wife, he remained good friends with it together for about 10 years.
They just, it was an analytical split. They didn't, there was no ill feelings. She was a stage, a stage actress, which is where Hombre, a two way Hombre got started. He started on the stage.
And he was actually doing stage work while he was doing this film as well. And she wanted to, she didn't want to go into the movie life like he had, so they just analytical split his third wife, Mio, Metta, Metta, M-E-T-H-O-T. That's her, M-Metta. Metta.
Metta. Wait, what, like wishful? What nationality is she? I didn't actually look into that part, but Mio, as I will call her, M, wow, that was an explosive marriage of abuse.
Alcoholism, paranoid schizophrenia, all on her side. He suffered massively during that. He's like, his alcoholism got even worse. He was always a heavy smoker.
He was smoking about eight a night a year a day. Jesus. Yeah. He brought it on as well.
Yeah, all rollies. He only started smoking filled with cigarettes when he got diagnosed with cancer. How does he have the type? Did you say, it didn't take him very long.
You saw how he rolled it. There's actually him rolling in the film. He always smoked in his movies. I was going to say I loved the smoking doodads in this film.
Like, did you notice the desk light as well? Yes. That looks amazing. I would have one if I'd obviously had one smoking inside because I'd do smoke tabs and his little backy pouch, which was a little actual pouch.
Yeah. It was like a drawstring, like, you know, like a woman's drawstring purse. That's what it looked like. And you get, it was mesmerizing to watch him like roll.
And when his secretary did it for him, yeah. Yeah. It was like a joint effort of like, he had like, but it was so effortless between the two of them that you could tell that done this many times before. He had to do his hand.
She was making it and he rolled it and she lit it and it was like, it was seamless. But yeah, he didn't start smoking. He felt the cigarettes until he got diagnosed with cancer. And which is his marriage to me or was kind of, I don't want to say the reason, but it really did drive him into the arms of his fourth wife who was quite literally, I would dare say, the love of his life, which is the amazing Lauren McColl.
You met her when she was 19. He was 45. They were together until he died. And he had his first kid at the age of 49 with Lauren.
Oh, she's 24. Yeah. It's 24. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he had his second one with Lauren at the age of 52.
And so he became a father in that marriage. Him and Lauren were, the way Lauren describes him, I've watched a lot of interviews with her over the weekend. And she just said he's honest. And he hated people who were partly game, very pompous, naughty, and he didn't like pretentiousness.
And he became quite liberal, which was against his family who were very, they were Republicans. And even though his mom was a massive feminist, he just kind of went against the grain and you didn't stand for bullshit, but he also wasn't an asshole. And she just describes him in such a lovely manner. He is buried in East of Buried Ashlee was cremated and he's in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, but he actually is in his own little garden.
Like there's other people in there, but this garden is so exclusive that only the family members have keys to go in to visit them. It's many a YouTuber has managed to get a hold of that key and go inside. And there was rumors that Lauren was actually interred with him in his little niche that he's in, but she's not. She put an interview that when they were putting his ashes into the niche, the guy turned around and said, there's room in there for YouTuber, Miss McCall, and she was like, there's no goddamn way I am going in there.
John, you can chuck me to see, but I am not going in that thing. And he was buried on, he was putting his niche with a gold whistle. So what am I? It's in reference to the, because him and Lauren McCall did a lot of films together, their chemistry was crazy.
So the studios kind of went with that and had them in a lot of, and one of the films, she says a very famous line name, and I'm probably going to end up butchering it, but it's something along the lines of, if you need me, you just need a whistle, you poke your lips and blow, you know how to whistle, don't you? And that's why he was buried. I heard that before. Yeah, I'm butchered it, but it's the way she says it, just buck up and blow.
It's a cash, cash, a song or something. It's just Lauren McCall's very, she had such a gravelly voice. Even at 19, she's amazing, she's absolutely beautiful as well. But yeah, he obviously went on and he's done some classic movies, Casablanca.
He was very tight cast as a villain in the start of his career. It wasn't until Maltese Falcon when he was starting to be took serious as someone who could do something outside of the villain, and cast in, but he was a stage actor. It took him a long time and not because he, Hollywood was too far out of reach for him. He just really loved being on the stage, which a lot of times was the same, Vincent Price was exactly the same.
Do you know, with, do you think a lot of the people in this film were stage actors went on to be in film? Yeah. Because I'm just thinking about the over the top reactions to things. Stage actors do that scene from the Jeepe's seat.
Yeah. Don't they? Yeah. I'm just thinking going back to what he called Sam's partner's death when he gets shot and tumbles down like for half an hour.
Yeah, it's that is such a classic game. It always reminds me of Hitchcock. When I was younger, when I first got in Albert Hitchcock movies, I went to an experience in Universal Studios. It used to have like a studio thing locked set up and it was all, it was like the Albert Hitchcock experience and get to see how he makes these movies.
And one of them is the falling down off buildings. And that, you know, that shot of them where they're on their back and their arms are flailing up in the air. Yeah. It's done on a seat and they are literally just on a green screen as they are, you know, falling back and that literally took me right there as to that shot.
Sorry, I've got it. Sorry. I'm doing that. That explains the, oh, sorry.
Sorry. No, I was just going to say that explains the, um, some of the stage direction and stuff with these kind of films because it's the first time I was watching, but I was wondering if that's typical of other films at this time. Yeah. It's very exaggerated.
And really over the top and the likelihood is the majority have come from stage. Like I said, Devinson Price, he and he is very, or he the way he pronounces his words in the way that he pronounces things, it's like he is talking to the back of the room. And that's that's the age that's been on the stage quite a lot. And Humphrey was no different.
I think what really helped Humphrey Bogart is how quick he is. He's really like his dialogue is incredibly quick. And he is like, he doesn't just know what his lines he knows everybody else's right. He's very good at doing that.
And he was a very talented chess player as well. He was almost pro. Yeah. And every movie, there was always a chessboard.
And it's just, it's just there in case he wants to play. Oh, you'd be like on on screen as well. Yeah. He also he would he was so he loved chess so much.
He actually used to play a long distance chess with somebody who he would write to. And they would literally like write a move and then send it to them. And then it was a long distance chess game. But he got intercepted during World War Two.
It was a World War Two World War one because he was actually in the Navy as well. Was he in the Navy? Did I read that right? And if he was, I'm sorry, I've just, but yeah, he was doing this.
And he got intercepted by the army who were like, oh, as he'd given away, is this like a war? And this is something he had to just know it generally is a chess game. Yeah, I went on an absolute deep dive with this man because I just found him so interesting. But the other interesting character is Pete Law.
A lot of it's how you want to see it. And he is, I've not seen him act before. Like, as in, I've never watched any of these movies, which is odd because he is quite famous as a horror actor. And I've not, I've not, I've not watched any of his films, but I know of him.
I know the voice. I know what kind of voice the voice just unreal. I know that there's people who have impersonated him who tried to impersonate him during during movies and the little worm on the corpse bride. That is in dedication to Pete Law.
But he was best friends with Vincent Price and Bill LaGorsey. He actually went to go and view Bill LaGorsey's body when he died. And he saw him dressed in the Dracula cape and said, do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case? Oh, that's close.
Yeah, he was best friends with Vincent Price. Vincent Price was broken. The day Pete Law died, which was March 23, March 23, 1964. He became really poorly towards the end to the point where the face that you probably recognised him as is quite puffy, like it's bigger because he did end up due through steroids, put on a bit of weight and his face changed a lot.
I've noticed his eyes almost like bulging a bit. Yeah, like a butt after I tried to say a poly, but yeah, boogie. Boogie. Yeah.
He actually convinced him of people got to marry Lauren Bocole. Said there said the best thing that was the best thing that will ever happen to you, especially what has gone on with your last marriage, get out. And he's also the first ever Bond villain, villain from the 1954 Casino Royale. Well, I didn't know that.
You didn't know that until I learned about it. I don't think I've seen the original Casino Royale, though. So yeah, I've just stayed away from old films for some reason. Well, he did.
He did. Oh, gosh, hang on. About 1977, his daughter Catherine Law was almost abducted in Los Angeles by serial killers. Oh my god, this actually, this was this is so interesting.
So he's not, he's not I was almost kidnapped by serial killers, known as the hillside stranglers. She was stopped by Kenneth Bianchi and Angela Boono, who was impersonating policemen. When they realized it was Laura's daughter, they let out Gore because they genuinely thought her dad was the serial killer Fritz Lang from the movie M. And he did.
He played Fritz Lang and M. And she didn't realize who the killers were until they were arrested. And she would have had to go to the police. I'm like, Oh, yeah, they tried to do me, but they generally were that stupid and thought my dad was a real serial killer in a movie.
I've definitely, I've definitely just put the Hillside stranglers in Google. Look at this rabbit hole. That was crazy. But on the back of his performance in M, he was he received 310 film offers of the similar role, but he refused them because he didn't want to be pigeonholed into playing like a psychopath.
But it didn't always work that way because that's kind of the character. He kind of ends up with 310 offers on the back of one movie. He does play it well though, the accent, the look goes that it's just in the fruit for someone who is quite small, he makes himself massive. Oh, I'm small.
I didn't actually look at the retight. But another really interesting thing about Pete Law, it was reported that Goebbels warned him to flee Germany. Seriously. And he was a rocker on me.
Which one's Goebbels again? He's the science one of me. Wasn't he? Oh my god, I've read a book on what's it?
Is it him? Is it the global suit of the experiments in the camps? Because I've got a book that I couldn't finish. And it was from the point of view of his when the doctors went into the camps, he went up to them and said, who knows such and such.
And everyone took a step back apart from this one guy who didn't and all the rest of them got taken off. And he ended up being like his apprentice. And he wrote a book of his experience. And I can't remember if it was Goebbels.
I couldn't. I couldn't finish it. It was a horrible read. Yeah, it's not for the light, light stomach reading about it.
No, no, you got you got to be strong of mind as well. He was 53. Dave, thank you so much. I'm sorry.
Five. All right. I've been upgrading the dinch on five five. No, five.
Yeah, don't be surprised. No, it's not. It's just because I'm I mean, I am vastly taller than you. But if you're not like 5 9 5 7, I don't know how tall you are.
I generally don't know. I'm five four. I think the Lewis Red be in bringing a wrong. Gave us an extra extra number.
So I'm just taking my lap though. Just take it. Yeah. Yeah.
My mum does whenever she gets because she my mum's four eleven and the law was issues five foot inches. I get my mum on that one. She's not she's tiny. And also, Pete Law has another pop culture credit that you can take with him to the grave.
He is the original or bit his face. His whole his whole him is the original illustration of Gomez Adams. Come on, Adam's family. Oh, I see it.
Don't yeah. The eyes, you know, how you mentioned the eyes and that and the face. Oh, yeah. That was, it was first published in the New York in 1938 when he was 34 years old.
So yeah, being a law is the inspiration behind Gomez Adams. Even because it wasn't Gomez Adams meant to be like a strange accent, not like from a particular country. You're a European kind of. Yeah, like in general.
Oh, he's European. He's just not from here. Yeah. Because I could not place his accent when I got here talking.
I had a Google that he sees Hungarian Hungarian. Yeah. I mean, I don't know many Hungarian people, but Bill Gotti was Hungarian. You can tell the difference.
Not tell the difference, but you can kind of like, you could put Bill O'werry comes from quite easily. I think that helps because with Dracula, he used that voice and that accent to his benefit. Whereas Pete Law just like, I don't know, it's hard to describe because he doesn't. He plays his accent down.
It's breathy. But like, must be breathy. Yes. Yes.
It's out of the day, breath. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, it was honestly, it's been an absolute, I want to watch more Pete Law movies.
Like I want to, his Paul Bearer is at his funeral, was Vincent Price. Oh, gosh, I can't remember now. I always remember the Hollywood graveyard where they go to visit his grave. It's spectacular.
It's like a vault kind of thing. How do you describe them? They're on the wall and in the wall. And the ones that you get in like M, Mardi Gras thing, please.
Yeah. Like the mores and even things. It's not them. I know it's not that.
But it's like, no, it's not it. Have you seen Marilyn Monroe's great before? Where it's just that you've got the wall of people, but behind the wall is the, it's like that. But it's long ways.
It's not. That way. Nobody, nobody, you know, audio is going to pick up the fact that I'm doing it. I don't know that.
I'm imagining it again. Do you know what the autopsy draws that you get? But on the days. That's Marilyn's.
But yes, turn it on the side. That's the one that Pete laws in. Yeah. And there's a poll going at the moment in the chat.
How tall is Chris? Five, five, four, five, three, only two votes in. And there's more of you in the chat. Everyone wins except myself confidence.
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Hey, I thought I was five there. And did I find out anything more on anyone else? Because I'm not doing all this research and not telling anyone about it. And John Houston recruited Mary acid to play a prank on his father, Walter Houston after the elder Houston had filmed his cameo, as to cold of Walter telling him that she was producer, how be Wallace a secretary and that Wallace thought he'd overacted during his scene.
Houston was enraged declaring that he'd never been accused of overacting in his life, but he agreed to return the next day to reshoot the scene. John then took the phone from Astor, identified himself as Wallace and repeated the criticism while he grew even more furious declaring that he'd already agree to reshoot. And it was only when John exploded in the laughter on the other end of the phone that Walter realized his son was playing a prank on him. You don't piss off the patriarch.
Thank you. Also, this is something that I made sure that I wrote down because it was something that I, at the end of the movie, I was very confused how quickly we're to go right. We're going to Istanbul. There was no, no conversations about it.
It would never brought up until the very end. The film does not make things entirely clear as to why in the end Constantinople, which is Istanbul, is the group's intended destination. The falcon had been traced by Gutman to a Russian Cairo dealer there. Rather than trying to steal the bird, Gutman had tried to buy it from him, unintentionally tip it off as it's to extreme value.
This is why the fake was created. The Russian then intentionally allowed Cairo, Bridget and Thursby, to steal the fake. At that point, Bridget framed Cairo for the bad checks, putting him temporarily in jail while she and Thursby left for Hong Kong with what they thought was the actual statue. That would have been more helpful during the movie.
Do you think Sammy stole the Maltese Falcon? Yes. Do you know what? I didn't know what it was.
I know of this movie because of the name Humphrey Bogart. That's what I know it from. It scores 90, up until this year, it's scored 100% on run tomatoes. It's now dropped in 1980.
It's not the year for Maltese Vulgates. No, it dropped a percentage. It's got a 99% on run tomatoes, which is freaking ridiculous. So, yeah, that would have been handy to know that plot point.
Because it's so strange when Gutman just goes, right, we're going to Istanbul. All right. Bye. I think I'm going to add a bit more to his character as well with the dodgy checks and that he's accidentally tipped off the Russian Cairo dealer.
And that Cairo was actually in jail because of Bridget. It connects all of them perfectly. But there is such a disconnect in the movie that you don't understand what Bridget's got to do with it in the first place. Why should they?
But no one that makes that really helps with the plot now. So I'm glad I knew that part. So country to popular belief, it's the stuff that dreams are made of. Spoken by Humphrey Bogart in the last line of the picture, that's quite a famous line for this movie.
What the saying, now what episode will be more classy if we had Leon? Who is Lee? And yeah, that is no one of the most famous lines of this movie. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.