Movies
April, 1976
George Segal plays Sam Spade, Jr.--and plays him very engagingly--in The Black Bird, writer-director David Giler's tonguein-cheek sequel to The Maltese Falcon. Movie buffs or cultists who have enshrined the original film classic may need reminding that Falcon was never more than a piece of beautifully gilded trash, with which director John Huston and star Humphrey Bogart climbed to the big time on the back of Dashiell Hammett's tough-talking private eye. "Oh, God, I hate my life," groa...
