TY - ADVS AU - Hammett,Dashiell AU - Huston,John AU - Wallis,Hal B. AU - Blanke,Henry AU - Bogart,Humphrey AU - Astor,Mary ED - Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) TI - The Maltese falcon SN - 0780664752 U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2010/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - Private investigators KW - Drama KW - Detective and mystery films N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -