The Maltese Falcon

(1941)

101 minutes

Crime / Film Noir / Mystery

Directed by John Huston

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade
Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Gladys George as Iva Archer
Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo
Barton MacLane as Lt. of Detectives Dundy
Lee Patrick as Effie Perrine
Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman
Ward Bond as Detective Tom Polhaus
Jerome Cowan as Miles Archer
Elisha Cook Jr. as Wilmer Cook
James Burke as Luke
Murray Alper as Frank Richman
John Hamilton as Bryan
Walter Huston as Captain Jacobi

Sam Spade and Miles Archer are partners working in Spade and Archer, a San Francisco detective agency . Although they work together, Sam is not very fond of Miles. One evening, a very attractive woman by the name of Miss Wanderly comes into their office and from then problems arise. Miles and a man named Floyd Thursby turn up dead. Everything in Miss Wanderly’s world seems to be threatening. Sam is the only person she can rely on, yet the authorities suspect him for one of the murders. The killings do not stop and they are connected to the threatening men in Miss Wanderly’s life and their desire for the Maltese Falcon.

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