maltese falcon

wed 28, we watch that film, one of the masters of cinema.

ORIGINAL TITLE The Maltese Falcon
YEAR
1941
RUNNING TIME
100 min. Watch Trailers/Videos
COUNTRY
[United States]
DIRECTOR John Huston
SCREENWRITER John Huston (Novel: Dashiell Hammett)
COMPOSER Adolph Deutsch
CINEMATOGRAPHER Arthur Edeson (B&W)
CAST Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook Jr., Ward Bond, Walter Huston, Jerome Cowan
STUDIO/PRODUCER Warner Bros. Producer: Hal Wallis.
GENRE Film-noir
SYNOPSIS/PLOT Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The girl who asked him to follow the man turns out not to be who she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the `Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.