The Maltese Falcon - 3 Disc Special Edition

Crime, Mystery, Film Noir

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
Lee Patrick	Effie Perine
Elisha Cook Jr.	Wilmer Cook
Bette Davis
Warren William
Alison Skipworth
Arthur Treacher
Marie Wilson
Ricardo Cortez
Edward G. Robinson
Bebe Daniels

Director	John Huston; William Dieterle; Jean Negulesco
Producer	Hal B. Wallis; Henry Blanke
Writer	John Huston; Dashiell Hammett
Cinematography	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.