The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Directors

Roy Del Ruth

Cast

Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Thelma Todd, Robert Elliott, Walter Long, Otto Matieson, Dwight Frye, J. Farrell MacDonald

The story

In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer are hired by Ruth Wonderly to follow Floyd Thursby, a man that allegedly ran off with her younger sister. Later that night, police detective Tom Polhaus informs Spade that Archer has been killed while tailing Thursby. Thursby is killed later, and the police suspect Spade.

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