Top cast:William J. Butler,Billy Quirk,Florence Barker
Director:Nathan Greno&Byron Howard
Genre:Mystery
Region:Italy
Year:2020
Storyline:Ash congratulated her: "You did it, kid" as she completed the recitation, but expired.The reading triggered the opening of a whirling, spinning portal or rift that sucked Ash in (with all of the evil forces) and propelled him along with his '88 Oldsmobile and other objects, into a time-travel journey to the Middle-Ages, ca 1300s, the ime of the Book of the Dead.]The film earned three Academy Award nominations (with no wins): Best Picture (it lost toCavalcade), Best Actor (Muni lost his second nomination to Charles Laughton for his performance inThe Private Life of Henry VIII), and Best Sound.Dad was a Yankees fan then, so, of course, I rooted for Brooklyn.But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about.We did.And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find.This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which, I suppose, was the point.Officially, my major was English, but really, it was the Sixties.I marched, I smoked some grass, I tried to like sitar music, and I met Annie.The only thing we had in common was that she came from Iowa, and I had once heard of Iowa.After graduation, we moved to the Midwest and stayed with her family as long as we could, almost a full afternoon.BackgroundThe Maltese Falcon(1941) is one of the most popular and best classic detective mysteries ever made, and many film historians consider it thefirstin the darkfilm noirgenre in Hollywood.