San Francisco private investigators Sam Spade meets in his office a prospective client, Ruth Wonderly, who looks for her missing sister. She provides the detective and his partner, Miles Archer, with the name of a man that most like knows something about the missing woman, Floyd Thursby. Spade and Archer agree to help and find the sister, but the case soon goes awry when police informs Sam that Miles was found dead. Spade tries to contact the client in her hotel, but is informed that she checked out. To make things worse the police detectives tell him that Floyd Thursby was also killed that night and they begin to suspect that Sam Spade had something to do with those two murders.
Classic detective film noir that more or less created the stereotype of a private investigator of the 1940s - tough, slick and always with a sharp remark ready at hand. Based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett, who used to work as a private detective for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in San Francisco, The Maltese Falcon is a idealized look at the work of a private investigator, who takes a small, everyday case and end up tangled in a story involving an artefact that is hundreds years old.
Considered a classic of the genre, the film is filled with colourful characters, memorable quotes and intrigue that changes with every scene and none of the characters is crystal clear in the world of Sam Spade.
Can you solve a mystery like this one?
Detective Tom Polhaus:
[picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it?
Sam Spade:
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Ruth Wonderly:
I haven’t lived a good life. I’ve been bad, worse than you could know.
Sam Spade:
You know, that’s good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we’d never get anywhere.
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