The Maltese falcon

The Maltese falcon [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. ; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis ; associate producer, Henry Blanke ; screenplay by John Huston ; directed by John Huston. - Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010 - 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett. Originally released as a motion picture in 1941.

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet.

In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. In Satan met a lady, Sam Spade is now PI Ted Shane, pulled into the hunt for the jewel-filled Horn of Roland


DVD, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

0780664752 9780780664753


Private investigators--Drama.
Detective and mystery films.

791.4372 / MAL 2010