![]() ![]() This might be the best audiobook I have heard so far. The mental images created are very strong in this novel, the characters so stereotypical or 'characaturised' as to be almost cartoonish, but in an entertaining way, and in a style which reflected the 1940's I suppose. ![]() The film, notable for its cast, crisp dialogue, and dramatic cinematography, was Huston’s directorial debut. Listening to the audiobook also made me realise how much 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?' owed to the book, rather than the movie. The Maltese Falcon, American film noir, released in 1941, that was an adaptation by John Huston of Dashiell Hammett ’s famed 1930 hard-boiled -detective novel of the same name. Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private eye who has his own sense of honor and ethics. The voice of Cairo (Peter Lorrie in the movie) is delightful, as if the actor himself, dead all these years, had come back. The Maltese Falcon is a foundational work in the detective fiction genre. Usually the 'dipthong drift' which characterises Amer-English makes the voices too whiney and insubstantial when compared, for example, with Richard Burton or Derek Jacobi. This is the first time I have heard an American reader carry off multiple voices and characters. The other book that will be examined here is The Maltese Falcon (1930), one of the most popular and best known hard-boiled crime novels ever, that has served as. ![]() The femme fatale is wonderfully portrayed, as is the treacherous Joel Cairo. It was richer, and more detailed than the movie (in which Bogie played Sam Spade). ![]() The audiobook of the Maltese Falcon exceeded my expectations. ![]()
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