The Maltese Falcon
Film details
| Film Title | The Maltese Falcon |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 100mins |
| Year | 1941 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Director | John Huston |
| Actors | Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook Jr., James Burke, Murray Alper, John Hamilton, Charles Drake, Chester Gan |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
It is (and this is rare in American films) a work of entertainment that is yet so skillfully constructed that after many years and many viewings it has the same brittle explosiveness — and even some of the same surprise — that it had in its first run.
★★★★★
The strange, dreamlike tension of the film escalates with each new confrontation, each new tailing, each new beating…
★★★★★
This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form.
★★★★★
