Directed by John Huston
Produced by Hal B. Wallis (executive)
Written by Dashiell Hammett (novel) John Huston
Starring Humphrey Bogart
Mary Astor
Peter Lorre
Sydney Greenstreet
Music by Adolph Deutsch
Cinematography Arthur Edeson
Editing by Thomas Richards
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) October 3, 1941
Running time: 101 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
The Maltese Falcon is an American 1941 Warner Bros. film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, Sydney Greenstreet in his film debut, and Peter Lorre.
The film was Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
The story concerns a San Francisco private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert, and Entertainment Weekly, and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain, the first major work on film noir, as the first film of that genre.
The film premiered on October 3, 1941 in New York City and in 1989 was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film.
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The way he looks around in the beginning make him look sort of blind.
smileyface7727 9 months ago