The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) Quotes

The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Maltese Falcon completed its run in 1970.

It features Adolph Deutsch in charge of musical score, and Arthur Edeson as head of cinematography.

The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) is 101 minutes long. The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Ward Bond as Detective Tom Polhaus, Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman, Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo, Elisha Cook Jr. as Wilmer Cook, Humphrey Bogart as Spade, Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy, John Hamilton as Bryan, Lee Patrick as Effie Perine, and Barton MacLane as Lt. Dundy.

The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) Quotes

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "You gotta convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around hoping it'll all -- come out right in the end."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss Wonderly. We believed your 200 dollars. I mean, you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "You killed Miles and you're going over for it."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "If you kill me, how are you gonna get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you gonna scare me into giving it to you?"

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Now, let's talk about the black bird."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Let's. Mr. Spade, have you any conception of how much money can be got for that black bird?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "No."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Well, sir, if I told you -- If I told you half -- you'd call me a liar."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "No, not even if I thought so."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?"
• (Barton MacLane) "And gettin' a lot of lyin' answers."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Take it easy."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "There isn't the time for that schoolgirl act. We're both of us sitting under the gallows."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "You don't have to trust me as long as you can persuade me to trust you."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "I hope you're not letting yourself be influenced by the guns these pocket-edition desperadoes are waving around, because I've practiced taking guns from these boys before; so we'll have no trouble there."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you."
• (Mary Astor) "You know whether you love me or not."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Maybe I do. I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent you over, but that'll pass."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "You're a good man, sister."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else?"
• (Mary Astor) "What else is there I can buy you with?"

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Miles hadn't many brains, but he had too many years of experience as a detective to be caught like that, by a man he was shadowing, up a blind alley, with his gun tucked away in his hip and his overcoat buttoned. But he would have gone up there with you, Angel. He was just dumb enough for that. He'd have looked you up and down and licked his lips and gone, grinning from ear to ear."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "People lose teeth talking like that. If you want to hang around, you'll be polite."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Here."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "You shouldn't let him go around with these on him, he might get himself hurt."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Well, well, what's this?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "A crippled newsie took 'em away from him. I made him give 'em back."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "You're a good man, sister."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "If you kill me, how are you going get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you going to scare me into giving it to you?"
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Yes, that's -- That's true. But, there're none of them any good unless the threat of death is behind them. You see what I mean? If you start something, I'll make it a matter of your having to kill me or call it off."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "That's an attitude, sir, that calls for the most delicate judgment on both sides. Because, as you know, sir, in the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Then the trick from my angle is to make my play strong enough to tie you up, but not make you mad enough to bump me off against your better judgment."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "By gad, sir, you are a character."

• (Humphrey Bogart) "Yes, sweetheart?"
• (Lee Patrick) "There's a girl wants to see you. Her name's Wonderly."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Customer?"
• (Lee Patrick) "I guess so. You'll want to see her anyway. She's a knockout."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Shoo her in, Effie darling, shoo her in."

Lee Patrick as Effie Perine

• (Lee Patrick) "Look at me, Sam. You worry me. You always think you know what you're doing, but you're too slick for your own good. Some day you're going to find it out."

Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo

• (Peter Lorre) "Look what you did to my shirt."

• (Peter Lorre) "I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Don't worry about the story's goofiness. A sensible one would have had us all in the cooler."

• (Peter Lorre) "Might I remind you Mr. Spade that you may have the falcon, but we certainly have you."

• (Peter Lorre) "You always have a very smooth explanation ready."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?"

• (Peter Lorre) "No, no. Our private conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them. Forgive me for speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth."

• (Peter Lorre) "You -- you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. You -- you imbecile. You bloated idiot. You stupid fat-head you."

Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Well, sir, what do you suggest? We stand here and shed tears and call each other names -- or shall we go to Istanbul?"
• (Peter Lorre) "Are you going?"
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Seventeen years I've wanted that little item and I've been trying to get it. If we must spend another year on the quest -- well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only -- five and fifteen seventeenths percent."

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "You're a close-mouthed man?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Nah, I like to talk."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Better and better. I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Now, sir. We'll talk, if you like. I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Swell. Will we talk about the black bird?"

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "The best goodbyes are short. Adieu."

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "You begin to believe me a little?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "I haven't said I didn't."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Well, sir, to hold it safe while pursuing his researches into its history, Charliaos re-enameled the bird. Despite that precaution, I got wind of his find. Ah, sir, if only I had known a few days sooner. I was in London when I heard. I packed a bag and took the boat train immediately. On the train I opened a paper, The Times, and read that Charilaos' establishment had been burglarized and him murdered. Sure enough, I discovered upon arriving there that the bird was gone. That was seventeen years ago. Well, sir, it took me seventeen years to locate that bird, but I did. I wanted it and I'm not a man that's easily discouraged when I want something. I traced it to the home of a Russian general; one Kemidov; in an Istanbul suburb. He didn't know a thing about it. It was nothing but a black enameled figure to him, but his natural contrariness kept him from selling it to me when I made him an offer. So I sent some; ah; agents to get it. Well, sir, they got it, and I haven't got it. But I'm going to get it -- Your glass, sir."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Then the bird doesn't belong to any of you but to a General Kemidov?"
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Well, sir, you might say it belonged to the King of Spain, but I don't see how you can honestly grant anybody else clear title to it; except by right of possession. Well, now, before we start to talk prices, how soon can you; or how soon are you willing to produce the Falcon?"

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon."

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "That's an attitude, sir, that calls for the most delicate judgment on both sides. 'Cause as you know, sir, in the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away."

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "This is going to be the most astounding thing you have ever heard of, sir, and I say that knowing that a man of your caliber, in your profession, must have known some astounding things in his time. What do you know, sir, about the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, later known as the Knights of Rhodes and other things?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Crusaders or something, weren't they?"
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Very good. In 1539, these crusading knights persuaded the Emperor Charles V to give them the island of Malta. He made them but one condition: They were to pay him, each year, the tribute of one falcon, in acknowledgment that Malta was still under Spain. Do you have any conception of the extreme, the immeasurable wealth of the Order at that time?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "I imagine they were pretty well fixed"
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Pretty well is putting it mildly. They were rolling in wealth, sir. For years they had taken from the East, nobody knows what spoils of gems, of precious metals, silks, ivories, sir. We all know that the Holy Wars were to them largely a matter of loot. The Knights were profoundly grateful to the Emperor Charles for his generosity toward them. They hit upon the happy thought of sending him for the first year's tribute, not an insignificant live bird, but a glorious golden falcon, encrusted from head to feet with the finest jewels in their coffers. Well, sir, what do you think of that?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "I don't know."
• (Sydney Greenstreet) "These are facts, sir. Not school book history, not Mr. Wells's history, but history nevertheless. They sent this foot-high jeweled bird to Charles, who was then in Spain. They sent it in a galley commanded by a member of the Order. It never reached Spain. A famous admiral of buccaneers took the Knight's galley and the bird. In 1713 it turned up in Sicily. In 1840 it appeared in Paris. It had by then acquired a coat of black enamel so that it looked like nothing more than a fairly interesting black statuette. In that disguise, sir, it was, you might say, kicked around Paris for more than three score years, by private owners too stupid to see what it was under the skin -- Then in 1923, a Greek dealer named Charilaos Konstantinides found it in an obscure shop. No thickness of enamel could conceal value from his eyes. You begin to believe me a little?"

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding."

• (Sydney Greenstreet) "These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells' history, but history nevertheless."

John Hamilton as Bryan

• (John Hamilton) "Who killed Thursby?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "I don't know."
• (John Hamilton) "Perhaps you don't, but you could make an excellent guess."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney and a stenographer."
• (John Hamilton) "Why shouldn't you, if you have nothing to conceal?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Everybody has something to conceal."
• (John Hamilton) "I'm a sworn officer of the law, 24 hours a day, and neither formality nor informality justifies you withholding evidence of crime from me. Except, of course, on constitutional grounds."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Now, both you and the police have as much as accused me of being mixed up in the other night's murders. Well, I've had trouble with both of you before. And as far as I can see my best chance of clearing myself of the trouble you're trying to make for me, is by bringing in the murderers all tied up. And the only chance I've got of catching them, and tying them up, and bringing them in, is by staying as far away as possible from you and the police, because you'd only gum up the works."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "You getting this all right, son, or am I goin' too fast for ya?"
• (Stenographer) "No, sir, I'm getting it all right."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Good work."

Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy

• (Mary Astor) "He has a wife and three children in England."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "They usually do, though not always in England."

• (Mary Astor) "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere."

• (Mary Astor) "What would you do if I didn't tell you? Something wild and unpredictable?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "I might."

• (Mary Astor) "Mr. Archer was so alive yesterday, so solid and hearty --"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Stop it. He knew what he was doing. Those are the chances we take."
• (Mary Astor) "Was he married?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Yeah, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife that didn't like him."

• (Mary Astor) "Help me."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good. Chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like 'Be generous, Mr. Spade.'"
• (Mary Astor) "I deserve that. But the lie was in the way I said it, not at all in what I said. It's my own fault if you can't believe me now."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Ah, now you are dangerous."

Barton MacLane as Lt. Dundy

• (Barton MacLane) "Well you know me Spade, if you did it or if you didn't, you'll get a square deal from me and most of the breaks. Don't know as I'd blame you much; man that killed your partner. But that won't stop me from nailing ya."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "Fair enough"

Elisha Cook Jr. as Wilmer Cook

• (Elisha Cook Jr.) "Keep askin' for it and you're gonna get it -- plenty. I told you to shove off -- shove off."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "People lose teeth talkin' like that. You wanna hang around, you'll be polite."

• (Elisha Cook Jr.) "Keep on riding me and they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver."
• (Humphrey Bogart) "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter."

Ward Bond as Detective Tom Polhaus

• (Ward Bond) "Heavy. What is it?"
• (Humphrey Bogart) "The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."
• (Ward Bond) "Huh?"

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