The maltese falcon book online6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The coincidence of producing the three Maltese Falcon films during various stages of the Code's development and enforcement gives them particular interest as examples of the constraints under which filmmakers worked and how they responded. The Production Code was the newly consolidated industry's strategy for managing agitation for government censorship, both federal and local. Meanwhile the film industry was growing rapidly and consolidating, renovating theatres for sound and fighting off calls for censorship that had their roots in the rapid and uneven social change. The liberated "New Era" of the twenties was coming to a close after the stock market crash of 1929 and the movement of the country into the Great Depression. ![]() At the beginning of the period, a century-long battle over Prohibition still raged with momentum now swinging to the side favoring repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Over the next decade-a period of dramatic change in the country and in the film industry-the novel served as the basis of three Warner Brothers films, The Maltese Falcon (1931), Satan Met a Lady (1936), and The Maltese Falcon (1941). It quickly became a best seller and was acquired by Warner Brothers on June fifth (Layman 125). The Maltese Falcon first appeared serially in Black Mask beginning in September 1929 and in book form in February 1930. ![]()
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