The Movie: This is another one of those movies that I should have seen a long time ago, but never got around to seeing, and so, it too found its way onto my Netflix queue. It's a classic Bogart movie featuring him as the detective Sam Spade, complete with the office with the frosted glass window on the door.

Frankly, I was somewhat disappointed by this film. It just didn't bring me in. I didn't get wrapped up in the plot, and I didn't really care what happened to them. There were a number of plot twists, but, again, I didn't really care. In some ways, I feel like I only watched this movie because it's a classic and was supposed to be really good. What I found though was that this movie was just as cheesy as the countless parodies I've seen of this genre. Oh well. At least I saw it.

The DVD: This movie was presented in it's original standard 4:3 aspect ratio, as it predates the popularization of the widescreen format. Special features included a trailer for this movie, as well as a documentary on Humphrey Bogart movie trailers, which I did not watch. The trailer for The Maltese Falcon, I did watch, and I thought it was interesting because the way they edited the shots together were rather misleading and not representative of what the movie was really about. But it did make the movie sound exciting. Plus, old movie trailers are cool.