The Maltese Falcon (1941)






Sam Spade, a hard-boiled private detective, teams up with a beautiful and mysterious woman named Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor) to find the Falcon and uncover the truth behind its disappearance. Along the way, they are pursued by a cast of sinister and dangerous characters, including a criminal mastermind named Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet) and his henchman, Wilmer Cook (Elisha Cook Jr.).

As Spade delves deeper into the case, he finds himself caught in a web of lies, betrayal, and deception, and must navigate his way through a series of twists and turns in order to uncover the truth and emerge victorious.



Books on The Maltese Falcon

Richard J. Anobile (editor)
The Maltese Falcon
London, 1974

Books with substantial mentioning of The Maltese Falcon

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Lesley Brill
John Huston's Filmmaking
Cambridge - New York, NY - Melbourne, 1997

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts
The Great Detective Pictures
Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1990

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Danny Peary
Cult Movies, The Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird, and the Wonderful
New York, 1989

John McCarty
The Films of John Huston
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1987

Ann Lloyd (editor)
Movies of the Forties
London, 1982

Gerald Pratley
The Cinema of John Huston
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1977

David Zinman
50 Classic Motion Pictures, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
New York, 1970

Clifford McCarty
Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart
New York, NY, 1965

Books with an entry on The Maltese Falcon

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003