The Coronado Island Film Festival is slated to screen the 1941 film, “The Maltese Falcon,” a Best Picture Oscar-nominated feature.
The screening, at 1:30 p.m. on April 12 in the Ruby Room of the Coronado Public Library, is free and open to the public and part of the festival’s educational classic film series.
The film, directed by John Huston, is an enduring detective mystery movie in the American film canon.
Leading the cast as detective Sam Spade is Humphrey Bogart, with a supporting cast of: Mary Astor as the story’s femme fatale, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in their first of many screen pairings, and the Elisha Cook, Jr. as Greenstreet’s gun-toting “boy.”
