The Maltese Falcon. Mary Astor as Bitch Goddess before.. any Murican would have uttered such a thing! except, when stoned, to a fellow degenerate. Wilmer: the prototypical looser for all time, long before Billy made so many other recent ones.
(A close second, maybe even surpassing Astor: Agnes Moorhead as Bogey's ex, in the film shot in SF really noir - Dark Passage)
So if it's Bogey time: was you ever stung by a dead bee?
Films to be interred in reinforced concrete for at least a century:
It's a Wonderful Life (along with
Keane's Family Circus, still treacling up the Sunday comics. Garfield.)
Ashton Critic