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.I really don""t know.But Burden is reluctant to reveal the truth to the dim-witted Willie about how he will soon be defeated in the state""s gubernatorial race by the machine.At the same time, Shingen had revived from he pool and donned a traditional armored samurai outfit - he had also equipped himself with a sword.The two argued about their own racist attitudes, as Zeus screamed at McClane: "I don""t like you because you""re gonna get me killed.