"I was so distressed by the whole tone of the script and the vapidity of my part that I marched up to Mr. įilming began on December 1, 1935, although leading lady Bette Davis, upset that she was being forced to film "junk" after completing a prestige project like The Petrified Forest, failed to report to the set. Showing little regard for the original material, Holmes converted its object of desire - a jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon - into a ram's horn filled with precious gems, changed character names ( Sam Spade became "Ted Shane"), altered the sex of one of the criminal masterminds from male to female, and retitled the story, first to The Man in the Black Hat and then Men on Her Mind. executives decided to film another version of the book and assigned contract writer Brown Holmes to pen the screenplay. Since they already owned the screen rights to the Dashiell Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon, economical Warner Bros. Valerie: "Would you mind taking off your hat in the presence of a lady with a gun?" Production John Elliott as Committee Member (uncredited).William Davidson as Spokesman (uncredited).Miss Murgatroyd then shows up and claims Shane for her own. He baits her into confessing to Ames's murder and tries to apprehend her for the $10,000 reward, but Valerie thwarts him by allowing a washroom attendant to turn her in to the police instead. The police round up all the suspects, but Shane and Valerie escape.
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Working all sides of the street, Shane makes deals with each of them to find the horn, and eventually winds up in possession of a package allegedly containing it, but it turns out to be full of sand instead of jewels. Madame Barabbas is also searching for the treasure and sends a gunman to bring Shane to her. Shane finds his office and apartment have been ransacked and his secretary Miss Murgatroyd has been locked in a closet by Anthony Travers, who is in search of an 8th-century ram's horn rumored to be filled with jewels. Valerie Purvis hires the detectives to locate a man called Farrow, and when both Ames and Farrow are found dead, Shane is suspected of both murders. Private detective Ted Shane returns to work with his former partner Ames, who is not particularly happy about the situation because his wife Astrid dated Ted before they were wed.
Says Ted: "After I've cleared up a couple murders, you and I could have lots of fun."
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