MUMBAI: The U.S. Postal Service will honour legendary film director John Huston with a postage stamp. The stamp is likely to be issued next year.

The art on the stamp has been inspired by the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon and depicts Humphrey Bogart holding the statue of the falcon.
 
Huston‘s credits also include the Academy Award nominated films The Asphalt Jungle, Moulin Rouge and Prizzi‘s Honor.

The stamp is part of a four-stamp Great Film Directors series. The Postal Service announced earlier this month that John Ford and Frank Capra are other directors who would be depicted in the series.