# Peter Gunn-The Briefcase **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901 "2016-10-08T01:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/1 "2016-10-08T01:34:28Z")
A remake of the Maltese Falcon. Tough guy private eye, hired by a woman who goes under various names. PI has a jealous girl friend. A heavy set criminal mastermind type (disgraced politician) trying to buy the Falcon-er, briefcase. A foreign guy with an accent seeking said briefcase. A fellow who may or may not be a gunsel seeking the briefcase. Dying guy staggering into PI’s apartment with the Fal-briefcase. The stuff that dreams are made of. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/2 "2016-10-08T14:19:18Z")
Movie? Book? Fantasy? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/3 "2016-10-08T14:45:35Z")
[Peter Gunn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunn) was a detective television show of the 1950s. The Maltese Falcon a book by Dashieil Hammett and a film with Bogart. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/4 "2016-10-09T13:53:44Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > [Peter Gunn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gunn) was a detective television show of the 1950s. > The Maltese Falcon a book by Dashieil Hammett and a film with Bogart. Yes, I know that. But what are you talking about in the OP? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/5 "2016-10-09T14:35:11Z")
I’m amused at how much that episode resembles _the Maltese Falcon_. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/6 "2016-10-09T17:51:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’m amused at how much that episode resembles _the Maltese Falcon_. Oh, I see now. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/7 "2016-10-09T18:21:16Z")
heh reminds me of the mike hammer episode that totally rips off the warriors except its hammer trying to get back to the office hes fighting/running from every thug in nyc and yet he still finds the time to stop and prove the leader of the girl gang isn’t a lesbian like it was hinted earlier in the episode when she helps him out … ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/8 "2016-10-09T20:10:21Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > heh reminds me of the mike hammer episode that totally rips off the warriors > > except its hammer trying to get back to the office hes fighting/running from every thug in nyc and yet he still finds the time to stop and prove the leader of the girl gang isn’t a lesbian like it was hinted earlier in the episode when she helps him out … Darrin McGavin, or the other guy? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/9 "2016-10-10T00:08:16Z")
Shamelessly ripping off the plots of classic movies was something many TV series used to do. In fact it was often a surefire “jump the shark” sign that the show’s creative well was running dry. (Incidentally, I’m not including episodes of TV shows that parody well-known movies or acknowledge the fact they’re doing a homage.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/10 "2016-10-10T00:40:06Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Shamelessly ripping off the plots of classic movies was something many TV series used to do. “Ripping off” ain’t in it. I can’t Google anything, but it almost seems to be a joke. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/11 "2016-10-11T20:05:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > A fellow who may or may not be a gunsel seeking the briefcase. You _do_ realize that “gunsel” means gay, not gunman, right? John Huston snuck it past the Hayes office who did not know their Yiddish. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-gunn-the-briefcase/767901/12 "2016-10-11T20:20:21Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > You _do_ realize that “gunsel” means gay, not gunman, right? John Huston snuck it past the Hayes office who did not know their Yiddish. Yes, in _The Maltese Falcon._ But the gunsel in _The Briefcase_ looked more like Peter Lore than Elisha Cook.