The Maltese Falcon: Book vs. Movie
John Huston's 1941 film The Maltese Falcon adapts Dashiell Hammett's book. Humphrey Bogart plays Sam Spade, a detective caught between a murder investigation and rival claimants to a valuable black bird statuette.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Year
- 1929
- Pages
- 200Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 57 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Johnny Heller
San Francisco detective Sam Spade takes a case from a woman who claims to be searching for her sister, only to find himself under suspicion after his partner is murdered. The client's story unravels as competing strangers approach him about a valuable bird-shaped statuette. Spade must decide how much of their bargaining to believe while the police watch his own connections to the dead.
- Director
- John Huston
- Writer
- Dashiell Hammett, John Huston
- Year
- 1941
- Runtime
- 1 hr 41 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
- Genre
- crime, drama, film noir, mystery, treasure hunt
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
The murder of his partner leaves private detective Sam Spade with a dishonest client and police questions he would rather avoid. Then a stranger offers money for a black bird statuette, revealing that the apparent missing-person case conceals a much larger pursuit. Spade plays the competing hunters against one another while trying to stay clear of a murder charge.
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