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film version of '' The Maltese Falcon '', directed by John Huston ]]Sam Spade is a Fictional Character who is the Protagonist of the novel '' The Maltese Falcon '' ( 1930 ) and the various movies and adaptations based on it. The character was created by Dashiell Hammett , and the novel was first published as a serial in the Pulp Magazine '' Black Mask ''. History Sam Spade was a new character created specifically by Hammett for ''The Maltese Falcon,'' he had not appeared in any of Hammett's previous short stories. Hammett says about him: :"Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not — or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague — want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client." ( Introduction to ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1934 edition) ) For most people, the character is most closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart , who played Spade in the Third And Most Famous Film Version of ''The Maltese Falcon''. Although Bogart's hair was not dyed blond as called for in the novel, and was considered too small and dark for the role (and was even slighted for not playing the character as enough of a lecher), his Spade turned out to be the archetypal private detective. His characterization has influenced Film Noir ever since. Spade was played by Ricardo Cortez in the pre- Code First Film Version ( 1931 ). (An attempt to re-release the film in 1936 was denied approval by the Production Code Office due to the film's "lewd" content.) In the second film version, '' Satan Met A Lady '' ( 1936 ), a light comedy, the central character was renamed ''Ted Shane'' and was played by Warren William . On the radio, Sam Spade was played by Edward G. Robinson in a 1943 '' Lux Radio Theatre '' production, and by Bogart in a 1946 '' Academy Award Theatre '' production, both on CBS. A 1946-1951 radio show called the '' The Adventures Of Sam Spade '' (on ABC, CBS, and NBC), starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne ), and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character. George Segal played Sam Spade, Jr., son of the original, in the film spoof, '' The Black Bird '' ( 1975 ). Books
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