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A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Keywords
based on novel or book
detective
ladies' man
femme fatale
womanizer
film noir
murder
statuette
private detective
black bird
pre-code
fall guy
adulterous affair
Casts
Ricardo Cortez
Sam Spade
Bebe Daniels
Ruth Wonderly
Dudley Digges
Casper Gutman
Una Merkel
Effie Perrine
Robert Elliott
Police Lt. Dundy
Thelma Todd
Iva Archer
Otto Matieson
Dr. Joel Cairo
Walter Long
Miles Archer
Dwight Frye
Wilmer Cook
J. Farrell MacDonald
Det. Sgt. Tom Polhaus
Agostino Borgato
Capt. John Jacobi (uncredited)
Morgan Wallace
District Attorney (uncredited)
Lucille Ward
Sarah the Prison Matron (uncredited)
Crews
Maude Fulton
Screenplay
Roy Del Ruth
Director
Dashiell Hammett
Novel
George Marks
Editor
Robert M. Haas
Art Direction
William Rees
Director of Photography
Earl Luick
Wardrobe Designer
Brown Holmes
Screenplay
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