Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Bogart at his best in a great detective film.:

"The Maltese Falcon" remains one of the great detective films of all time. Humphrey Bogart was never better than as Sam Spade investigating the death of his partner Myles Archer. He soon turns his attention to finding a famous and valuable statue, the Maltese Falcon. A great supporting cast of actors hinders his search. First is "the dame," Mary Astor, who knows how to lie, except to Bogart. Next is "the fat man," capably played by Sidney Greenstreet. Elisha Cook Jr. is "the gunsel" who works for... more info

BEAUTIFUL DVD, CLASSIC FILM NOIR:

A classic fabled film from 1941, this story set in San Francisco in the office of Archer and Spade is movie making at it's best. The actors give uniformly great performances and almost eerily seem to be born for their parts: Bogie as Sam Spade; Jerome Cowan as Archer; Greenstreet as Gutman; Elisha Cook as Wilmer; Lee Patrick as Effie and, of course, Peter Lorre as Cairo. Mary Astor briefly revived her fading career (a 1936 red-hot scandal was mostly to blame) and as Brigid O' Shaughnessy she's in her... more info

A Bogart classic:

Director: John Huston
Format: Black & White
Studio: Warner Studios
Video Release Date: February 1, 2000

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart ... Private Detective Sam Spade
Mary Astor ... Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Gladys George ... Iva Archer
Peter Lorre ... Joel Cairo
Barton MacLane ... Det. Lt. Dundy
Lee Patrick ... Effie Perine
Sydney Greenstreet ... Kasper Gutman
Ward Bond ... Det. Tom Polhaus
Jerome Cowan ... Miles Archer
Elisha Cook Jr. ... Wilmer Cook... more info

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