Film Screening of "The Maltese Falcon"
10.01.2011 (19:00)
Zum Todestag von Dashiell Hammett
with an Instroduction by Karin Höpker, Amerikanistik, Universität Erlangen
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) is one of the most influential mystery writers in the US. To honor the fiftieth anniversary of his death, we will be showing the Oscar-nominated film adaption of Hammett's classic novel "The Maltese Falcon". Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by the mysterious Mrs. Wonderly to find Floyd Thursby, who ran away with her underage sister. Spade soon realizes this case is more than he bargained for...
USA 1941, 101 min., OmU, R.: John Huston
Montag, 10.1.
19 Uhr im DAI
Eintritt frei, engl. Sprache
with an Instroduction by Karin Höpker, Amerikanistik, Universität Erlangen
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) is one of the most influential mystery writers in the US. To honor the fiftieth anniversary of his death, we will be showing the Oscar-nominated film adaption of Hammett's classic novel "The Maltese Falcon". Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by the mysterious Mrs. Wonderly to find Floyd Thursby, who ran away with her underage sister. Spade soon realizes this case is more than he bargained for...
USA 1941, 101 min., OmU, R.: John Huston
Montag, 10.1.
19 Uhr im DAI
Eintritt frei, engl. Sprache