The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of

[CameraQuest]

For Maltese Falcon fans, it does not get much better than this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Maltese-Fal...248?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6fbf0e90

Stephen

 

[kshapero]

Well a bit of trivia. My father-in-law was Humphrey Bogart's stunt double in the Maltese Falcon. He is the guy falling down the stairs. He broke a few bones and quit the stunt business. Then he became the TV director of Dobie Gillis, Dukes Hazard and many more. His name, Rod Amateau.

 

[sevres_babylone]

Well a bit of trivia. My father-in-law was Humphrey Bogart's stunt double in the Maltese Falcon. He is the guy falling down the stairs. He broke a few bones and quit the stunt business. Then he became the TV director of Dobie Gillis, Dukes Hazard and many more. His name, Rod Amateau.

Akiva, then you'll appreciate the beginning of Len Deighton's Billion Dollar Brain:
"It was the morning of my hundredth birthday. I shaved the final mirror-disk of old tired face under the merciless glare of the bathroom lighting. It was all very well telling oneself that Humphrey Bogart had that sort of face; but he also had a hairpiece, half a million dollars a year and a stand-in for the rough bits.."

 

[MISH]

I loved dobie gillis (and the falcon is pretty cool too)

 

[kshapero]

Akiva, then you'll appreciate the beginning of Len Deighton's Billion Dollar Brain:
"It was the morning of my hundredth birthday. I shaved the final mirror-disk of old tired face under the merciless glare of the bathroom lighting. It was all very well telling oneself that Humphrey Bogart had that sort of face; but he also had a hairpiece, half a million dollars a year and a stand-in for the rough bits.."

very very cool

 

[DanOnRoute66]

I don't understand the listing, Stephen. This company makes the genuine fake falcon, not to be confused with the fake fakes? Considering that the company has been in business since 1963, and the John Huston-directed "Maltese Falcon" with Bogey, et al., was released in 1941, it couldn't be the bird that was in the movie.

 

[DanOnRoute66]

Well a bit of trivia. My father-in-law was Humphrey Bogart's stunt double in the Maltese Falcon. He is the guy falling down the stairs. He broke a few bones and quit the stunt business. Then he became the TV director of Dobie Gillis, Dukes Hazard and many more. His name, Rod Amateau.

Now, that's cool -- except for the broken bones, of course.