Post a question about a movie & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google

[red dog 1]

Re: "Benny & Joon"
A) Who was originally cast to play the role of Benny?
B) What actress was offered the role of Joon but turned it down?

[Harker]

1. Who portrayed Sam Spade in the 1931 film "The Maltese Falcon"?

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[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. Humphrey Bogart

Loved it! And WHO did he SMACK in the film?

[Harker]

4. Bogart played the part ten years later...

smacking Peter Lorre in the role of Joel Cairo.

The earlier version has been largely forgotten.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

6. Oh! Had NO IDEA

there WAS an earlier version!

[Harker]

9. I borrowed an amped up edition of the '41 from a library that had the '31 film, too.

Speaking of "Dracula", Dwight Frye, who played Renfield in the 1931 Bela Lugosi film also played Wilmer the gunsel in the '31 "Maltese Falcon."

[red dog 1]

10. Good question!

I was curious, so I looked it up.

I had never heard of the actor who played Sam Spade.

[Harker]

11. He shows up every so often when I'm reading about that era, or when I see the TCM schedule posted here.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. Don't know, but here's one....

What's the actor who starred in a GREAT older drama about a German officer who kills prostitutes and what is the name of the film?

[Harker]

5. Peter O'Toole as General Tanz in " Night of the Generals."

An old favorite of mine.

Omar Sharif and Phillipe Noiret were good in it, too.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

7. YES!!! I LOVE that movie!

He was more turned on by blood that F--king DRACULA! lol!!

[Harker]

8. Yes, he was utterly horrifying!