After reading a Bette Davis film book, mention is made that the cast of the Maltese Falcon make a gag/good luck appearance in this film. While John Huston's dad is the bartender at the roadhouse, the bar patrons are unknowns.
This board also mentions that the crew are not in the film. I rewound and paused several times and agree.
Does anyone else have an thoughts?
I read they edited it out and reattached it in a Mexican version of the pic.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
Only Walter Huston as the bartender is in that scene. I can't make out the others at the bar and I've looked at it several times--but Bogart and Mary Astor are definitely not there. Nor is Peter Lorre. Somebody made up that myth and it goes on and on ad nauseum. Whatever he may have done as a gag, it's not in the finished film.
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i havent seen it but on the DVD commentary of 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre', Eric Lax says he populated that bar scene with the cast of The Maltese Falcon.
so take a closer look.
Eric Lax also mentions on the DVD commentary of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" that Ann Sheridan makes a cameo appearance as the prostitute whom Dobbs pursues after having his haircut. He invites us to "take a closer look " and we will observe Ann Sheridan. I have observed that, at least to my eyes, that isn't Ann Sheridan. So I'm not surprised to hear that the cast of the Maltese Falcon isn't sitting in a bar in "In this our life". I am going to rent it and see for myself.
I did rent "In this our life" and I agree with previous posts: Walter Huston is the bartender but none of the "Maltese Falcon" cast is present at the bar. I love to watch Bette in this movie. She is delightfully depraved.
The scene at "The Shanty" appears 33 minutes into the film and lasts less than 3.5 minutes. I have watched it in slo-mo several times. Outside of Lee Patrick, whose character is introduced in the scene, no other member of the cast of "The Maltese Falcon" appears. I'm not saying they didn't show up on the set, that they weren't filmed as extras, or that footage never existed. Rather, I believe that any alleged footage was strictly for the private entertainment of those involved and, therefore, was never intended to be part of the final cut of the film. Was there a gag scene filmed as a joke? Who was the joke on - Huston, Davis, Patrick or someone else? Whatever. It doesn't matter. The point is moot. IMDB should delete this film from the main Bogart listing. Create a new category - "Rumored but unconfirmed appearance".
Even if the footage was to suddenly surface and be proven to be nothing more than an out-take, the fact that it has been omitted from the final released cut,
justifies the deletion of this film from the Bogart page.
Lee Patrick who plays Effie in Maltese Falcon plays the friend in Baltimore in this film
shareI can't say that I actually noticed them, though I'd have to look again. Eric Lax, in his Audio Commentary on THE MALTESE FALCON, states this as fact.
6-19-08 Edit: Huston is unmistakable, but the others simply aren't there.
"Stone-cold sober I find myself absolutely fascinating!"---Katharine Hepburn
I watched the scene three or four times last night. Indeed, Walter Huston is the only character from "The Maltese Falcon" in the bar scene.
shareThe scene in question isn't in The Shanty. It takes place 98 mins into the movie at The Southside Bar. Walter Huston is unmistakeable as the bartender and there's a group of patrons standing at the bar. I don't recognize any of them, apart from Huston himself, as being in the cast of The Maltese Falcon. I think the answer is probably that given above; Bogart and Greenstreet and others may have been visiting the set and John Huston filmed them all at the bar as a gag. It would never have been meant to be part of the film. This is a critical moment of the movie and no director would have wanted to distract the audience's attention at such a time.
shareAre you all looking at the right place? For what it's worth, the IMDb cast list calls each of them "Extra at a Roadhouse Table". I haven't seen most of the film, including any such scenes, but the above wording would seem to imply that they're not standing "at the bar", where some posters understandably couldn't find them, but possibly sitting at a table somewhere nearby.
shareBut apart from the 4 or 5 extras at the bar gathered round the radio with barman Walter Huston to listen to the ballgame the roadhouse has no other customers at all in it other than Bette Davis at the jukebox. It's a small place and it's quite clear from the various camera angles that all the tables are empty. the scene mentioned in the book, if it's genuine, definitely does not appear anywhere in the film as we have it now. And the presence of Walter Huston in this scene makes it quite apparent that this would be the right place to look.
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