The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros.) (1931)

WARNER BROS. VITAPHone _ w&UNNING TIME { (Vitaphone) 77 Minutes FOOTAGE 7094 Feet Permission 1s gra licensed exhibitors c reproduce with proper notice of copyright all matter contained herein. NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A. >> “DPMGROUS PLAIPLE” AYSED Ut) AMier. 44 BASHIELL PAINE F with BEBE DANIELS— RICARDO CORTEZ SYNOPSIS (Not for publication) 321 WEST 44th STREET SUMMARY BEBE DANIELS IN HER MOST DARING Stars of New Strand Film Copyright 1931 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved ROLE AS AN ALLURING ADVENTURESS — as a ‘cans emia en eae IN A THRILL-PACKED ACTION STORY in Sam Spade and Miles Archer, part. ners in a detective agency. She wants a detective to follow Floyd Thursby, who has her sister in his | Power. Archer undertakes this job | but is found shot to death at close | range the following morning. Thursby is also found dead. Spade ap| pears indifferent to both deaths and thereby arouses the suspicions of Detective Dundy. | Spade visits Ruth Wonderly and She confesses that her story was | false. Thursby had just come from Hongkong with her and had killed Archer but she is ignorant as to Thursby’s slayer. Back in his Office, Spade is visited by Cairo, who offers him $5,000 for the -‘“y of a | Saeeote of a bird. wuen Sparc = | Feacnes home that night, he finds , | Ruth awaiting him. He tells her of | | Cairo’s visit and she is upset. she | | offers herself to Spade but Cairo arrives to interrupt. The girl tells Cairo she is afraid because Gutman and The Kid, who proves to be Wilmer, a man who has followed Spade to his home, are in town and who she believes killed Thursby. The following day Spade is sum‘|moned to see Gutman, who is the “The Maltese Falcon” Cut No. 17 Cut 30c Mat 10¢ OF BAFFLING MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE. ROUTINE STORY (This story contains all the important facts about “The Maltese Falcon.” Release it several days before the run.) of the Theatre announces | eB 9 : . next as the opening | date for “The Maltese Faleon,” the Warner Bros. mystery melodrama, starring Behe Daniels. in tha -~>s+ daring role of her career. gives the strangely absorbing picture an air of vital authority. Those who support Miss Daniels are Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma Tedd, Stiv Matiesen, Oscar Apfel, Walter Long, Dwight Frye, } J. Farrell MacDonald and s,s Manager Miss iels appears as the amaz-| Borgato. The adaptation is by W ly..an alluring ad-' Maude. Fulton, Lucien Hubbard . te WwW : venturess w 0 uses all the wilesiand Brown Hoimes. Roy Del Ruth! known to femininity in order to win! directed. over the various men who are try-| “Phe ing to find out whether she is, or is| among the masterpiece of detective not, the head of the most baffling | lore, such as those of Poe. De| crime rings known to the police.! \faupassant or Conan Deve. It | The clever star is able to keep audi-| is one of those utterly enthralling | ences mystified as to her real person| creations which find such favor ality to the last fade-out of the film. | with so many of the great, and with The statuette of a maltese fal| the rank and file of ordinary folks. | con is supposed to contain jewels| Mystery stories were acknowledged | i which not only Miss Wonderly, but/to be the favorite reading of Sir, starring Bebe Daniels with Ricardo Maltese Faleon” ranks ‘“*The Maltese Faleon,’’ Warner Bros. romantic mystery, Cortez, opens at the Una Merkel, who portrayed Ann Rutledge Walter Edison} Strand tonight. a gang of criminals are in quest of. Though gunplay often halts or | hastens the action, guns are not | seen or heard. The piece is an adaptation of the best-selling novel of Dashiell Hammett, who was for many years a Pinkerton detective. This fact and the clever casting WHO'S WHO | BEBE DANIELS—Beautiful star of “Rio Rita,” “Dixiana,” “My Past” and “The Maltese Faleon.” Born in Dallas, Texas. RICARDO CORTEZ — Seen in “Sorrows of Satan,” “Mockery,” “Tllicit” and “The Maltese Falcon.” Born in Vienna, Austria. DUDLEY DIGGES — Famous on stage and screen. Seen recently in Warner Bros. “Outward Bound.” Born in England. UNA MERKEL — Was recently seen as Ann Rutledge in “Abraham Lincoln” and in “Eyes of the World.” Born in Covington, Ky. ROBERT ELLIOTT — Seen in “The Valiant,” “Thunderbolt,” “Captain Thunder,” “The Doorway to Tell.” Born in Ireland. | Feature Page Accessories 12 We NEN SRS eee Bee ll Biographies ____________3, 4, 5 J Bp PA Se ee Oe 1 |of Horror,” and “Trial Marriage.” | TABLE OF CONTENTS Seott, Roosevelt, | President Wilson and a host beside. | Miss Daniels has been tremen| dously successful in her portrayal | of the starring role—and her support is excellent. Treat yourself and your friends to the thrill of a lifetime—“The Maltese Falcon.” THELMA TODD—Seen in “Hell’s | Angels,” “Her Private Life,” “House | Born in Lawrence, Mass. OTTO MATIESEN—Seen in “Be. | loved Rogue,” “Searamouche,” | “Strange Cargo,” and “General | Crack.” Born in Copenhagen, Den mark. OSCAR APFEL—Seen in “Marianne,” “Cheaters,” “True Heaven,” “Halfway to Heaven” and “Hurdy Gurdy.” Born in Cleveland, Ohio. WALTER LONG—“The Birth of a Nation,” “Blood and Sand,” “Back to God’s Country” and “Black Watch.” Born in Milford, New Hampshire. J. FARRELL MacDONALD—Seen in “The Four Devils,” “Men Without Women,” “South Sea Rose,” and “Too Young to Marry.” Westbury, | Conn. Feature Maplotaviets: oot 2 Lobby Frames —_2 a, , RES Si ee i in ‘‘Lineoln,’’ Robert Elliott and Dudley Digges are also in the east. THE “CAST RUTH WONDERLY — dn alluring adventuress who conquers all men but one... BEBE DANIELS SAM SPADE—Head of detective agency who is fascinated but undeceived by Miss W onderly._._RICARDO CORTEZ GUTMAN—Cleverest confederate of the crime ring of Miss Wonderly 4 oa DUDLEY DIGGES EFFIE — Secretary whose prettiness and evasiveness are Gitogether @uarnming, = UNA MERKEL DUNDY—Slow-voiced detective who is always on the trail of the gemma crook. ROBERT ELLIOTT IVA—Cheating wife of Spade’s unfortunate partner, er Se ee Pe ks, THELMA TODD CAIRO—Fat and ineffectual desperado who follows the the elusive falcon... CCSCSCOTTO MATIESEN DISTRICT ATTORNEY—Who finally calls the bluff of the sinister enchantress_.... OSCAR APFEL ARCHER—Partner of Spade who is early eliminated from a SE eee See WALTER LONG WILMER—One of Miss Wonderly’s most mistrusted comco; a DWIGHT FRYE POLHAUS — Policeman everybody will at once recogNike jcc a MacDONALD CAPTAIN JACOBI—Who brings the falcon from Hong Kong and makes a hasty exit___AGOSTINO BORGATO brains of the gang. He offers Spade 25,000 for the bird, which is worth millions and dates from the Cru stones. But Cairo arrives and informs them that Spade has not got the bird; he believes it will arrive that night by slow boat from China in care of Captain Jacobi, who has a package for Ruth. Spade is given knockout drops and they leave for the boat. Spade revives and goes back to his office. Captain Jacobi arrives there with a grip marked “RW” but drops | dead in the doorway. Spade checks | the bag and returns home to find | Miss Wonderly there. As they try to enter the door, they are met by leveled guns in the hands of Gutman, Cairo and Wilmer. Spade makes a proposition whereby he will return the bird if they will give him Wilmer as a “fall guy” to be convicted of Archer’s murder, Detective Dundy having threatened to arrest him unless he can positively clear himself. But when the bird arrives, it proves to be a false one and Wilmer escapes. Gutman and Cairo leave and Spade warns the police. When Detective Dundy and the district attorney arrive, he turns Ruth, Wonderly over to them as the murderer of Archer, stating that she thought the blame would be placed on Thursby, thereby getting him out of her way for a clear getaway with the bird. Gut ‘man is killed by Wilmer. All three murders are solved and the girl is sentenced to twenty years. Spade visits her in jail, still torn between his desire for her and the knowledge that she is no good and not to be trusted. But he leaves her & laugh on his lips—the girl ing & cigarette and trying to 1 a : . sades and is filled with precious —