Monsieur Spade
Summary
Monsieur Spadebears interesting link to a literary workplace from the 1930s , as well as an iconic Hollywood motion picture . asterisk Clive Owen as the titular character , Monsieur Spadeis a Modern mystery series from AMC . The show follows the exploits of Sam Spade , a once - successful private detective .
choose 1963 France as its elementary scope , Monsieur Spadeseason 1 tell a six - episode story that sees its independent protagonist dive head - first into a execution case . In the timeframe of the story , Clive Owen ’s Sam Spade is years past his prime . Having left the life of a individual police detective behind him years ago , Sam is enjoying the want of excitation in his routine activity when he ’s of a sudden forced back into activity . As for where it all head , that remains to be seen . However , that ’s not to sayMonsiuer Spadeis an entirely original story . It is , in fact , root in existing material .
Sam Spade Is The Protagonist Of The 1930 Novel The Maltese Falcon
While the story being told inMonsieur Spadeisn’t based on a book , its protagonist does indeed hail from a classic novel . Sam Spade made his first visual aspect inThe Maltese Falcon , a 1930 novel by Dashiel Hammett before headline a string of short narrative from the writer . During this epoch , news report about " hard - moil detective " had become unbelievably democratic , with author like Hammett , Mickey Spillane , and Raymond Chandler all compose some of the most well - love entries into the secret subgenre . Many of which , includingThe Maltese Falcon , wind up getting the Hollywood treatment .
In 1941 , John Huston compose and direct a big - screen version ofThe Maltese FalconandcastHollywood legend Humphrey Bogartin the lead role of Sam Spade . The story , like the book it ’s establish on , saw Spade get wrapped up in a search by multiple parties to find a ostensibly invaluable bird statue called the Maltese Falcon . Bogart ’s performance in the film , and the treatment of the Dashiel Hammett story , helped turn Sam Spade into one of the celebrated doer ’s well - sleep together roles .
The Events Of Monsieur Spade Are Set Well After The Events Of The Book
In the canon ofMonsieur Spade , the consequence ofThe Maltese Falconare in the past . From the looks of things , it play as a sequel serial to the original 1930 novel . Everything that pass in the Word of God ostensibly did happen in the show , but it was decades ago by this point . That make sense , considering the 1963 setting ofMonsieur Spade . Hammett ’s Sam Spade stories never guess that far into Sam Spade ’s life , meaning that while the show may exploreThe Maltese Falconstory via flashbacks , it ’s overarch narrative should be an entirely new tarradiddle , make what happens insufferable to predict from looking at Hammett ’s piece of work alone .
Monsieur Spadereleases novel episode on Sundays on AMC .
