The Maltese Falcon is one of those classic films that should be viewed by everyone. It stars Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, author Dashiell Hammett's famous hard-boiled private detective character. Spade gets involved with a group of unscrupulous personalities when Ruth Wonderly (played by Mary Astor) comes to his agency asking him to tail a man whom she claims is running off with her sister. Of course this story is not true; in fact, almost everything Ruth says is a lie. As Spade tries to get to the truth more shady characters pop up including Joel Cairo (a young, curly-haired Peter Lorre), the Fat Man (Sydney Greenstreet) & his boy Wilmer (character actor Elisha Cook, Jr).
The copy of this film that I watched was from the Special Edition 3-disk set that was released a couple of years ago. Not only does it contain this 1941 version, but also two other filmed versions and several radio plays with many of the same actors.
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