Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 27, 2010

Take that, you churl!!

That looks pretty violent for a good mood.

Morning, Marg!

Must be related to last Saturday’s dude. http://www.gocomics.com/ballardstreet/2010/08/21/

Mr Good Mood? If that is Mr Good Mood in a good mood, I would hate to see Mr. Bad Mood in a bad mood.

Wow, Stel Bel has a new poster for a Maltese Basset film! This one is in color so we get the pleasure of purplie eye shadow on Cleo! Same sparkly statue, though. I guess this was a remake that I missed. Thanks, Stel!

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

That’s a first for Mr. Good Mood.

If I’m not mistaken, this is an earlier version of the film from the 1930’s. I’m not that crazy about this one. One of my local stations showed a remake of the Big Sleep. I changed the channel 10 minutes later. Nothing and no one beat Bogart in the lead.

I think this is the 1931 Maltese Basset, based on the names of the stars. Can’t find the human poster, though..

A ha!

https://www.amazon.com/Old-Tin-Sign-Poster-Maltese/dp/B01FCW0FEQ

Looks like the Maltese Basset was stolen earlier in the 1930’s. Amazing that it could be stolen again just in time for Humphrey Bogart to track it down. Life is full of coincidences.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200827

Thank you, Dennis:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91RLlfwQ5oL.jpg

Hello, my Cleo friends and fellow film fans.

I know there’s some confusion surrounding StelBel’s beautiful poster

in the August 27th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY” on Sherpa….

and with good reason.

Maybe I can help. I hope.

“The Maltese Basset” is based on a wonderful (IMHO) short novel by Dash-Heel Basset… who only wrote 5 novels in his life…

all gems of dogtective writing…. including his probably most famous… the Thin Dog.

Grog is right… tonight’s poster is from the first film made from the book., in 1931.

It never achieved quite the fame of the 1941 version, with which you may be more familiar…

even though it starred the lovely Bebe Spaniels… and, as a “pre-Code” production, it was quite a bit racier than the later film.

The problem is, it also wasn’t quite as good.. though my review would be much less negative than Grog’s.

The humans thought well enough of it to copy it….

Dennis, I hope you don’t mind that I found this link:

The film was so racy, that it was not allowed to be re-released once the Motion Picture Code was in place….

So a second version, which they recast as a rather unfunny comedy, of all things, was released i9n 1936.

It’s leading lady, later in her now-famous career, wanted nothing to do with it.

So a third version was made, in 1941…

which the humans also copied., with their second bird version… the Maltese Falcon…

And finally, they made the version of “The Maltese Basset” that you saw in Stel’s Tuesday poster….

with human actors and Stel’s lovely basset statuette, in Cleo Clifford’s likeness.

So… we’ve had three basset and four human versions…

and I’ve seen them all!

But I think StelBel wanted to go back to the most original, in making toni

Good Morning Ballardeers and Dusty! Q-date 167.98254.41 and prayers and karma for the people of the gulf coast. Another hot muggy day in this area is nothing compared to what the LA coast is dealing with.

Three in a row super sleuthing posters by our own resident poster genius Ms Stel!

Y’all be safe. (((((HUGS)))))

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods)))) and Miss Susan.

Today’s poster is the best one yet! Love it! Of course, the others were good too. :-)

So cute!!

Wow! Stel, what a terrific poster! Love the gentle faces of our two stars. Especially the eye shadow color. And leave it to Stel to bring in another sparklie statue. Love it!

Maybe tomorrow we’ll get to see both of them in animation.

Ooooo, sparkles. Kudos again, StelBel!!!