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TO-NIGHT "The Maltese Falcon," the Warner Eros.' mystery melodrama, starring Bebe Daniels, in the most daring role of her career. Miss Daniels appears as the amaz- 'Jj ing Miss Wonderly, an alluring ad- j,, venturess who uses all the wiles known to femininity in order to win over the various men who are try- II ing to find ont whether she is, or is II not, the head of the most baffling ■" crime ring known to the police. The statuette of a maltese falcon is supposed to contam jewels which i not only Miss Wonderly, hut a gang || of criminals are in quest of. »' Those who support Miss Daniels | are Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, , Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma :j Todd, Otto Matiesen, Oscar Apfel, || Walter Long, Dwight Frye, J. Farrell ■ MaeDonald and Ag-ostino Borgato. II The adaptation is by Maude Fulton, II Lucien Huhbard and Brown Holmes. ■ Roy Del Ruth directed. "The Maltese Falcon" ranks among . the masterpiece of detective lore, such as those of Poe, De Maupassant or Conan Doyle. ' Miss Daniels lias heen tremen- | dcusly suceessful in her portrayal of j the starring role — and her support is j excellent.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 March 1932, Page 2
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