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The Maltese Falcon (novel)

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The Maltese Falcon is a quintessential film noir based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dashiell Hammett. It was filmed twice under the name The Maltese Falcon: once by Roy Del Ruth, starring Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade, and again (more famously) in 1941 by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart as the detective.

The story also inspired the 1936 film Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis and Warren William, as well as many spoofs and sequels.

The 1941 version of the film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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