Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Maltese Falcon (1941)






Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, and Barton MacLane. Directed by John Huston. A young woman hires private eye Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer to protect her from former partner Floyd Thursby. When Archer and then Thursby are murdered, Spade finds himself hounded by the police who believe he is the murderer. The woman eventually draws Spade into her plan to sell a gold-encrusted statue of a falcon reputed to contain princeless jewels to her other former partners.

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