Spade and Gutman

Sam Spade meets Kasper Gutman for the first time

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Humphrey
• Bogart
• Sam
• Spade
• Sidney
• Greenstreet
• Kasper
• Gutman
• The
• Maltese
• Falcon

[PhiloYT1]

I think it's not the story, but the smart, gritty dialog that makes this film a classic. Not a wasted word, not an awkward phrase, and all lines delivered perfectly by actors who seem as though they were born to play these characters. This scene is a great example, but really any scene in this film would serve.

Thanks for posting.

[williamrshirley]

This was Sydney Greenstreet's first film.

[charliemctruth]

The stuff that dreams are Madoff..

[xGrimsDaughterx]

Gutman reminds me of my Vice Principle. :P

[SorceressZila]

I've never heard of Sam Spade, but in reading the Vampire Chronicles, the main character, Lestat, likes to claim he speaks like a cross of a boatman and Sam Spade. xD

Hilarious as that mental image now is, I'm infinitely curious about this movie and plan to get my hands on it as soon as possible.

[RushLimborg]

Gotta love the grin Spade wears as he walks off at the end of the clip....

[bedstuyrover]

I like the camera angle used on Mr Gutman;he fills the entire screen,leaving no doubt as to who is the boss.I would love to see actors made up to look like Bogart,Greenstreet, and Lorre,and impersonate them in another similar thriller.

[raves11]

I'm 14 and I gotta say, they don't right em' like that no more.

[billthestinker]

great scene from a great film, even if Greenstreet's farting was edited out.

[leocomerford]

@tumadoireacht Thanks!

[tumadoireacht]

@leocomerford

Phil Tippett interview, "Empire of Dreams" (documentary): The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy documentary

[leocomerford]

@tumadoireacht Actually, just a few minutes before I read this comment I was thinking that Han Solo might owe something to Bogart's portrayal of Sam Spade in /The Maltese Falcon/: maybe there really is something to that. Of course, /Star Wars/ certainly wasn't the first film to rehash both personas, so /Casablanca/ may have been an influence too. (Do you have a ref. for the SW influence?) Come to think of it Joel Cairo as Greedo makes startling sense too!