The Maltese Falcon

But boy, that sounds familiar.

Sam Spade was a great detective from the 1930 Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon.

And, of course, the most famous portrayal of Sam Spade was by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film of the same name, The Maltese Falcon.

That's it for Spooky Cemetery on the Father Knows Best radio show podcast.

I'm Jim Ramanovich.

Stockwell appears in some high-profile movies primarily in the early 80s, starring in the dogshit sex comedy Losing It and Eddie and the Cruisers, a movie that video stores in 1984 wanted you to think was the biggest hit of the 80s.

Stockwell falls in with Albert Pugh in the mid-80s before producers knew any better and makes the ridiculous post-nuke Maltese Falcon pastiche Radioactive Dreams and then again the next year in Dangerously Close, which he also wrote.

Similar to co-star Keith Gordon, John Stockwell also gets into directing and works on some real low-budget business.

The only title among his filmography I recognize is the early 2000s torture porn cash-in Turistas.

And here, I feel like this is more of...

It's more of, like, a noir detective story from, you know, the 30s or 40s, where it's, like, you know, Maltese Falcon.

It's, like, within the world that exists, although we've actually created that world, and it's fascinating, within the world that exists, we have this detective story.

But the story isn't about... all the conspiracies going on in the government and whatnot.

Thank you to Edward Carpenter for this.

What links Rebecca, the Maltese Falcon, and the Monster Mash? Anyone want to take a guess at that? Bill,

immediately.

I got a little bit, maybe.

That's all I know.

Rebecca has died before the story begins, but the novel is all about the consequences of her memories and the anxieties of the other characters.

In the film The Maltese Falcon, the jewel-encrusted statuette is actually a forgery, and the Monster Mash...

It's just a song about the fact that they did the Monster Mash, but it's not the Monster Mash itself.