I'll go you one stranger than that: In 1974, during the production of a weird comedy sequel to "The Maltese Falcon," called "The Black Bird," starring George Segal, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had a plaster original of the Maltese Falcon -- one of the original six plasters, I think, made for the movie -- stolen out of the museum. A lot of people thought it was a publicity stunt for the movie.
Postaje još čudnije. To se dogodilo 1974. tijekom snimanja nastavka "Malteškog sokola", čudne komedije zvane "Crna ptica", u kojoj je glumio George Segal. Muzej umjetnosti Los Angelesa imao je gipsani original Malteškog sokola. Za film ih je napravljeno šest. Tog su sokola ukrali iz muzeja. Mnogi su mislili da je to marketinški trik za film.