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Sunday Feb 08, 2026
Sunday Feb 08, 2026
Today’s podcast is devoted to THE MALTESE FALCON, the classic novel by Dashiell Hammett and its various film versions including the classic Humphrey Bogart version from 1941 and the two lesser-known adaptations that preceded it.
My guest is Mark Dillon, the award-winning Toronto-based journalist specializing in film, TV and pop music. He is a former editor of Playback, the business publication for the Canadian media industries, and to which he still contributes. He has been writing for Hollywood magazine American Cinematographer for more than 25 years. He is author of Fifty Sides of The Beach Boys, chronicling America’s band, and co-hosts the (non-noir) podcast Surf’s Up: A Beach Boys Podcast Safari: https://soundcloud.com/user-93394161
28 days ago
This was great, Sergio. I really appreciated the discussion of the various cinematic versions of Maltese Falcon. I see that the next podcast will be about the radio version, which I will be super interested to listen to, as I’m currently listening to the OTR show right this moment, and am shockingly loving the heck out of it despite the fact that this version of Sam Spade is nothing like the novelistic/cinematic version. And *especially* as Howard Duff was such a hangdog please-punch-me-in-the-face in The Naked City.