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Maltese Falcon, The (1941) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Maltese Falcon, The (1941) a score of 3.4468 out of 4

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An outstanding detective yarn, The Maltese Falcon benefits from a superb cast and an admirably tight script; it only improves with every successive viewing. In San Francisco Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) works as a private dick, available to anyone for a...read the complete Maltese Falcon, The (1941) review at Movie Reviews UK

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Appreciating Great Trash

Humphrey Bogart plays a detective with a heart of stone in this classic (and purportedly the first) film-noir. The man takes the character of the level-headed, fast-talking Sam Spade and lends him a near - mythic stature of, well, coolness; there is...read the complete Maltese Falcon, The (1941) review at Appreciating Great Trash

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The Book-Lover's Guide to Cinema (Matthew Gold)

Watching The Maltese Falcon is a little like tripping on your way up a staircase in the middle of the night: you can't quite see what you've hit, but you know that it's solid and full of hard edges. More than fifty-five years after it was made, John...read the complete Maltese Falcon, The (1941) review at The Book-Lover's Guide to Cinema (Matthew Gold)