# Movie “unseen events” that would make a good movie of its own

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/51 "2024-04-05T19:14:51Z")

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Or a prequel, showing how Gutman got on the trail and first met Brigid and Joel. And we’d get to actually see Floyd Thursby.

> [@Plays (and movies) where an important character never appears](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plays-and-movies-where-an-important-character-never-appears/997022/96):
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> My contribution to the thread (and I’m surprised that I’m the first to mention him) is Floyd Thursby in _The Maltese Falcon_, both Dashiell Hammet’s book and John Huston’s 1941 film with Humphrey Bogart.
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> Thursby was Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s partner before the story starts, and she sets Spade and Archer after him, claiming he has seduced her (non-existent) sister. Archer starts tailing him and is killed by Thursby. Shortly after that, Thursby is killed, off-camera, by Wilmer Cook.

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