studios, with great dialogue, deceitful characters, and menacing scenes.The precocious director Huston was very faithful to Dashiell Hammett""s 1929 novelThe Maltese Falcon, that had originally appeared as a five-part serialized story in a pulp fiction, detective story magazine publication namedBlack Mask.Something that I must ask you...Would you wash out a pair of socks for me?...It""s just my way of telling you that I love you, that""s all.But then, Mrs.Whitehead intrudes, just when Spaulding feels he has Mrs.Rittenhouse on "the five-yard line." He works on Mrs.Whitehead too, complimenting her on her beautiful eyes.He looks toward Mrs.Rittenhouse and includes her, and merges them into one individual: "And so have you." Conversely, he splits himself into two - he describes and then acts out hisownfacial expressions: "He shot her a glance (he shoots his eyes sideways) - as a smile played around his lips (he flutters his own lips).Godby."The seated couple are interrupted by an overbearing, matronly gossip Dolly Messiter (Everley Gregg), who recognizes Laura and joins them for a cup of tea after a day of shopping ("I""ve been shopping till I""m dropping").After hey fled from the burning factory and drove away at 8:48 pm, Dr.Challis was attacked by cloned android "Ellie" and caused heir car to run off the road.He killed her by separating her head from her body with a tire iron grabbed from his trunk(# 21 death)(android).