The Maltese Falcon

Drama, Mystery, Action

Bebe Daniels	Ruth Wonderly
Ricardo Cortez	Sam Spade
Dudley Digges	Casper Gutman
Una Merkel	Effie Perrine
Robert Elliott	Police Lt. Dundy
Thelma Todd	Iva Archer
Otto Matieson	Dr. Joel Cairo
Walter Long	Miles Archer
Dwight Frye	Wilmer Cook
J. Farrell MacDonald	Det. Sgt. Tom Polhaus
Murray Alper	Frank Richman
Humphrey Bogart	Sam Spade
Mary Astor	Brigid O'Shaughnessy/Miss Wonderly/Miss LaBlanc
Ward Bond	Detective Sergeant Tom Polhaus
James Burke	Luke
Jerome Cowan	Miles Archer
Gladys George	Iva Archer
Sydney Greenstreet	Kasper Gutman
Peter Lorre	Joel Cairo
Barton MacLane	Detective Lieutenant Dundy

Director	Roy Del Ruth; John Huston
Producer	Hal B. Wallis; Henry Blanke
Writer	Dashiell Hammett; Lucien Hubbard; John Huston
Cinematography	William Rees; Arthur Edeson
Musician	Adolph Deutsch

A beautiful young woman, Brigid O'Shaunessy (Mary Astor) contacts a detective agency to find her runaway sister. Miles Archer takes the case, but when he gets gunned down, his partner Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) resolves to solve the case and catch Miles' murderer. One thing leads to another, and Sam Spade meets Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre), Guttman the Fat Man, (Sydney Greenstreet) and his gunsel Wilbur (Elisha Cook Jr), finds out there is no sister, but that everybody is actually interested in a mysterious black bird, the Maltese Falcon, said to be a gold bird covered with precious stones. During all this, Floyd Thursby, a pal of Birgid's is killed, as is Captain Jacobi (Walter Huston), another friend of Brigid's. At the very end, Sam Spade must decide if he'll throw his lot in with Brigid or do the right thing by his dead partner.