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Film Noir | Murder
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Budget 774,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,707,000 USD
Humphrey Bogart initially refused the film until studio head Jack L. Warner threatened him with suspension. Production was delayed nearly six weeks until Bogart relented.
The only one of five films pairing Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet where Bogart plays the bad guy.
First of two films where Humphrey Bogart plays a wife-killer. The other is The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947). Alexis Smith plays the "other woman" in both films.
The brooch worn by Kathryn Mason is the same one worn by Ingrid Bergman in her opening scene in Casablanca (1942). Also, a statuette resembling the "Maltese Falcon" is seen perched on top of a file cabinet at the police homicide bureau.
According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, this film was made in 1943. It is shown as being released in June 1945. Edwin Stanley who played Phillips passed away in December 1944 prior to it being released.
"Richard Mason: Mutton? What's he getting mutton for? We're going out to dinner. Kathryn Mason: We're having mutton tomorrow. Richard Mason: I don't like mutton. Kathryn Mason: I don't know why you say such a thing. I've seen you eat it a thousand times. Richard Mason: A thousand times I told you I don't like it. Kathryn Mason: Nonsense, it's all your imagination. You can eat anything if you put your mind to it. Richard Mason: I don't eat with my mind, I eat with my stomach."
"Kathryn Mason: Really, Dick, you might put your things away, just look at that bed. If I've told you once, I've told you... Richard Mason: Thousand times. Kathryn Mason: And you insist on doing it. Richard Mason: Listen Kathryn, I don't insist on anything. I don't know what's come over you lately. You find fault in everything I do and everything I say. What's the matter with you? Kathryn Mason: Don't stand there and play the innocent with me. You know perfectly well what the matter is. Richard Mason: What're you talking about? Kathryn Mason: Your ridiculous infatuation with Evelyn. Oh you thought I didn't know, didn't you? You must think I'm blind. The way you look at her and hang on her every word is positively nauseating."
