TCM Party screens The Maltese Falcon

📽 Beautiful shot of Mary Astor... The Maltese Falcon (1941) #FilmNoir #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

#SummerOfDarkness starts tonight (and Sat. night) with fabulous #FilmNoir lineups on @tcmtv.bsky.social to kick off the festivities. Catch The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa, and the classic romcom road trip Detour (1945) w/ Tom Neal & Ann Savage. #TCMParty #TCM

Humphrey Bogart: laying the foundation for every hard-boiled detective that followed. #TheMalteseFalcon #TCMParty

John Huston made his father do a dying cameo in his first directorial effort, and of course, seven years later would direct Walter to an Oscar. #TheMalteseFalcon #TCMParty #SummerOfDarkness

You can purchase fairly inexpensive falcon statuette replicas online if you want to add a conversation piece to your theater room. #TCMParty #SummerOfDarkness #TheMalteseFalcon ^JW

True! I forget where I got mine from with burlap sack and Chinese newspaper inside. It is weighted nicely like the film, and was from cast the original which sold for $4M in 2013. #SummerOfDarkness #TheMalteseFalcon #TCMParty 🕵️‍♂️🍸

"If they hang you, I'll always remember you." What a great parting line. #TheMalteseFalcon #TCMParty

Orry-Kelly did all of Mary Astor's gowns for #TheMalteseFalcon. Bogart wore his own clothes. That included suits from his other movies, specifically gangster roles. That unintentionally added to the detective's morally ambiguous, gritty aura. #SummerMadness #TCMParty in my jammies

That sounds like a @gayerthanthou.bsky.social line if I ever heard one #TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon

Mary Astor is here to remind you that Downstate Illinois natives are among the loveliest, smartest, and most intriguing carbon-based life forms ever to inhabit this planet earth. Not that you needed to be reminded... #TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon

And that's how I came to call Double Indemnity "the anti-sweater movie." P.S. - Stany "has a large collection of trailing negligees which is the only thing she wears that is a bit fussy." 😍 #TCMParty #DoubleIndemnity #SummerofDarkness

Is it truly a noir if the hero doesn’t get slipped a mickey at least once? 🤣😂 #TCMParty #TheMalteseFalcon #SummerOfDarkness

Nah, William Hurt's character in Body Heat is the biggest chump ever. Walter wanted this as much Phyllis. He needed about as much convincing as my cat needs to dig into an unattended roast chicken. #TCMparty #SummerOfDarkness #DoubleIndemnity

If Thelma Ritter were the maid, she'd go to Keyes in a hot minute with the whole thing figured out. #DoubleIndemnity #SummerOfDarkness #NoirAlley #TCMParty

The etymology of “gunsel” is quite enlightening for this movie #TheMalteseFalcon #TCMParty