The Maltese Falcon (1931)

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(3345)

Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Release: 1931-06-13
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Writers: Dashiell Hammett , Maude Fulton , Brown Holmes
Language: English | Chinese
Stars: Bebe Daniels , Ricardo Cortez , Dudley Digges (1879–1947) , Una Merkel , Robert Elliott , Thelma Todd , Otto Matieson , Walter Long , Dwight Frye , J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952)
Runtime: 80 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: El halcón maltés (Spain) , All Women (United States of America) , Το γεράκι της Μάλτας (Greece) , Il falcone maltese (Italy) , Мальтийский сокол , Le faucon maltais (France, French Republic) , Dangerous Female (United States of America) , Falken från Malta (Sweden) , El halcón (Spain) , The Maltese Falcon , Shahin e Malt (Iran) , Den sorte falk (Denmark) , A máltai sólyom (Hungary) , マルタの鷹（1931） (Japan) , En farlig kvinne (Norway) , Mujer peligrosa (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , The Maltese Falcon (United Kingdom) , Woman of the World (United States of America) , O Falcão Maltês (Brazil) , The Maltese Falcon (United States of America)
Plot: Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout, he wastes no time before seeing her. It turns out she's a knockout with money. And she wants to spend it on his services as a private detective. She has some story about wanting to protect her sister. Neither he nor his partner, Miles Archer, believes it. But with the money she's paying, who cares? The job proves to be more dangerous than either of them expected. It involves not just the lovely dame with the dangerous lies, but also the sweaty Casper Gutman, the fey Joel Cairo, and the thuggish young Wilmer Cook. Three crooks, and all of them are looking for the statuette of a black bird they call the Maltese Falcon.
IMDB:tt0022111