Assignment 4
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<movie>
    <heading>
        <title>The Maltese Falcon</title>
        <rating>**</rating>
        <technical-details>
            <country>US</country>
            <year>1931</year>
            <running-time>80 minutes</running-time>
            <color>bw</color>
        </technical-details>
        <production>
            <studio>Warner</studio>
        </production>
    </heading>
    <synopsis>
        <para>After the death of his partner, private eye Sam
        Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless
        statuette.</para>
        <para>Excellent crime melodrama with smart pace and
        performances. Remade as <ref>Satan Met a Lady</ref>
        (1936); and see below.</para>
    </synopsis>
    <credits>
        <writer>Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
        from the novel by Dashiell Hammett.</writer>
        <director>Roy Del Ruth</director>
        <photography>William Reese</photography>
        <actors>
            <actor special="yes" type="lead" gender="M">Ricardo
                Cortez</actor>,
            <actor type="lead" gender="F">Bebe
                Daniels</actor>,
            <actor type="lead" gender="M" special="yes">Dudley
                Digges</actor>,
            <actor gender="M">Dwight Frye</actor>,
            <actor gender="M">Robert Elliott</actor>,
            <actor gender="F">Thelma Todd</actor>,
            and <actor gender="M">Oscar Apfel</actor>.
        </actors>
    </credits>
    <reviews>
        <review>"The best mystery thriller of the
        year." <reviewer type="periodical">New York Times</reviewer>
        </review>
    </reviews>
</movie>

<movie>
    <heading>
        <title>The Maltese Falcon</title>
        <rating>****</rating>
        <technical-details>
            <country>US</country>
            <year>1941</year>
            <running-time>101 minutes</running-time>
            <color>bw</color>
        </technical-details>
        <production>
            <studio>Warner</studio>
            <producer>Henry Blanke</producer>
        </production>
    </heading>
    <synopsis>
        <para>A remake which shows the difference between
        excellence and brilliance; here every nuance is
        subtly stressed, and the cast is perfection.</para>
    </synopsis>
    <credits>
        <writer special="yes">John Huston</writer>
        <director special="yes">John Huston</director>
        <photography special="yes">Arthur Edeson</photography>
        <music special="yes">Adolph Deutsch</music>
        <actors>
            <actor special="yes" type="lead" gender="M">Humphrey
                Bogart</actor>,
            <actor type="lead" gender="F">Mary
                Astor</actor>,
            <actor type="lead" gender="M" special="yes">Sidney
                Greenstreet</actor>,
            <actor gender="M" special="yes">Elisha Cook Jr.</actor>,
            <actor gender="M" special="yes">Barton MacLane</actor>,
            <actor gender="F" special="yes">Lee Patrick</actor>,
            <actor gender="M" special="yes">Peter Lorre</actor>,
            <actor gender="F">Gladys George</actor>,
            <actor gender="M" special="yes">Ward Bond</actor>, and
            <actor gender="M" special="yes">Jerome Cowan</actor>.
        </actors>
    </credits>
    <reviews>
        <review>"The first crime melodrama with finish, speed
        and bang to come along in what seems like ages."
            <reviewer>Otis Ferguson</reviewer>
        </review>
        <review>"A work of entertainment that is yet so skillfully
        constructed that after many years and many viewings, it
        has the same brittle explosiveness - and some of the same
        surprise - that it had in 1941."
        <reviewer>Pauline Kael, 1968</reviewer>
        </review>
    </reviews>
</movie>

<movie>
    <heading>
        <title>Trouble In Paradise</title>
        <rating>****</rating>
        <technical-details>
            <country>US</country>
            <year>1932</year>
            <running-time>86 minutes</running-time>
            <color>bw</color>
        </technical-details>
        <production>
            <studio>Paramount</studio>
            <producer>Ernst Lubitsch</producer>
        </production>
    </heading>
    <synopsis>
        <para>Jewel thieves insinuate themselves into the household
        of a rich Parisienne, and one falls in love with her.</para>
    </synopsis>
    <credits>
        <writer>Samuel Raphaelson, Grover Jones (from play
        The Honest Finder, by Laszlo Aladar)</writer>
        <director special="yes">Ernst Lubitsch</director>
        <photography>Victor Milner</photography>
        <actors>
            <actor type="lead" gender="M" special="yes">Herbert
                Marshall</actor>,
            <actor type="lead" special="yes" gender="F">Miriam
                Hopkins</actor>,
            <actor type="lead" special="yes" gender="F">Kay
                Francis</actor>,
            <actor special="yes" gender="M">Edward Everett
                Horton</actor>,
            <actor special="yes" gender="M">Charles Ruggles</actor>,
            <actor gender="M">C. Aubrey Smith</actor>,
            <actor gender="M">Robert Greig</actor>, and 
            <actor gender="M">Leonid Kinskey</actor>
        </actors>
    </credits>
    
    <reviews>
        <review>"One of the gossamer creations of Lubitsch's
        narrative art...it would be impossible in this brief
        notice to describe the innumerable touches of wit and
        narrative skill with which it is unfolded."
            <reviewer>Alexander Bakshy</reviewer>
        </review>

        <review>"A shimmering, engaging piece of work...in virtually
        every scene a lively imagination shines forth."
            <reviewer type="periodical">New York Times</reviewer>
        </review>
    </reviews>    
</movie>

</movie-list>