The Maltese Falcon
1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His fellow treasure hunters include a sinister 'little and large' act (Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet), a psychotic tearaway (Elisha Cook Jr), and the duplicitous femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor).
Direction John Huston
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre · Barton MacLane · Lee Patrick · Sydney Greenstreet · Elisha Cook Jr. · Ward Bond · Walter Huston · Jerome Cowan
Soundtrack Adolph Deutsch
Screenplay John Huston · Dashiell Hammett
Cinematography Arthur Edeson
Original title The Maltese Falcon
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