Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady (1936)

HE MADE LOVE TO HER TO MAKE HER CONFESS MURDER! Then She Made A Confession That Made Even The Devil's Ears Burn!

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Date of release
1936-07-22
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Director
William Dieterle

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Maltese Falcon

Satan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis and Warren William.

Production

Since they already owned the screen rights to the Dashiell Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon, economical Warner Bros. Pictures executives decided to film another version of the book and assigned contract writer Brown Holmes to pen the screenplay.

Filming began on December 1, 1935, although leading lady Bette Davis, upset that she was being forced to film "junk" after completing a prestige project like The Petrified Forest, failed to report to the set. "I was so distressed by the whole tone of the script and the vapidity of my part that I marched up to Mr.

Upon completion of principal photography, art director Max Parker assembled a rough cut that so confused studio heads they assigned Warren Low to re-edit it. It was released on July 22, 1936, retitled Satan Met a Lady (the book had a line describing Sam Spade as looking "rather pleasantly like a blonde Satan"). By then, Davis was in London, having been placed on suspension for refusing to portray a lumberjack in God's Country and the Woman.

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