Released Date:
1939-10-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (8669 Reviews)
Director:
Raoul WalshJerry Wald (screen play)
Richard Macaulay (screen play)
Robert Rossen (screen play)
Mark Hellinger (from an original story by)
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Released Date:
1941-10-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (103084 Reviews)
Director:
John HustonJohn Huston (screenplay)
Dashiell Hammett (based upon the novel by)
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 Wonderly, 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 Wonderly 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.
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