Maltese Falcon, The (1941) USA
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Director:John Huston
Studio:Warner Bros.
Writer:John Huston, Dashiell Hammett
Rating:8.2 (87,674 votes)
Rated:Not Rated
Date Added:2014-05-27
UPC:5051890041449
Awards:Nominated for 3 Oscars, Another 1 win
Genre:German films
IMDb:0033870
Duration:100
Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 1.0
Languages:German, English, Spanish
Subtitles:German, English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Hebrew
LAC code:300011310
DVD or VHS:DVD
Original:original
John Huston  ...  (Director)
John Huston, Dashiell Hammett  ...  (Writer)
 
Humphrey Bogart  ...  Samuel Spade
Mary Astor  ...  Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Gladys George  ...  Iva Archer
Peter Lorre  ...  Joel Cairo
Barton MacLane  ...  Lt. of Detectives Dundy
Lee Patrick  ...  Effie Perine
Sydney Greenstreet  ...  Kasper Gutman
Ward Bond  ...  Detective Tom Polhaus
Jerome Cowan  ...  Miles Archer
Elisha Cook Jr.  ...  Wilmer Cook
James Burke  ...  Luke
Murray Alper  ...  Frank Richman
John Hamilton  ...  Bryan
Summary: Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese Falcon.