Daily Dialogue — July 12, 2010

Sam Spade: Haven’t you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else? 
 Brigid O’Shaughnessy: What else is there I can buy you with?

 — Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), Brigid O’Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), The Maltese Falcon (1941), screenplay by John Huston, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is femme fatales. 

Trivia: Director John Huston had Mary Astor run around the set several times before each of her scenes in order to give her a breathless, nervous appearance on screen.