She gives Spade little information, but manages to keep him on the case. The next day, Spade calls on Wonderly in an attempt to find out her real reasons for hiring them. Thursby is killed later, and the police suspect Spade.
Farrell MacDonald) informs Spade that Archer has been killed while tailing Thursby. Later that night, police detective Tom Polhaus ( J. In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade ( Ricardo Cortez) and his partner Miles Archer ( Walter Long) are hired by Ruth Wonderly ( Bebe Daniels) to follow Floyd Thursby, a man that allegedly ran off with her younger sister. A print has been held by the Library of Congress since the 1970s. The film was not seen in its entirety until after the collapse of the Code in the mid-1960s. The film was remade by the studio twice, with its 1941 remake starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor overshadowing its predecessors. While the film was successful, its legacy was deeply hampered by the enforcement of the Hays Code. Maude Fulton and Brown Holmes wrote the screenplay one contemporaneous report said that Lucien Hubbard was assisting them. The supporting cast features Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Walter Long, Una Merkel, and Dwight Frye. The film stars Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels as femme fatale Ruth Wonderly. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.ģ.The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and directed by Roy Del Ruth. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid OíShaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema.Ī coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.Ī treasure worth killing for. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.
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