The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film, the directorial debut of John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade and adapted from Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same name, in which Spade becomes entangled with a group of criminals pursuing a valuable jeweled statuette. The film's shadowy visual style, morally ambiguous characters and hardboiled dialogue helped establish the visual and narrative conventions that would come to define American film noir. The Maltese Falcon is widely regarded as one of the first true examples of film noir and one of the most influential American crime films ever made.
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Is The Maltese Falcon in the National Film Registry?
Yes, it was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989.
Yes. The Library of Congress lists The Maltese Falcon, released in 1941, in its Complete National Film Registry listing, and gives 1989 as the year it was inducted into the registry.
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston, marking Huston's directorial debut.
The Maltese Falcon, Description, original language
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film, the directorial debut of John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade and adapted from Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same name, in which Spade becomes entangled with a group of criminals pursuing a valuable jeweled statuette.
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston, marking Huston's directorial debut.
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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston, marking Huston's directorial debut.
View the Source 2. Library of Congress, National Film Preservation Board: Complete National Film Registry Listing
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The Maltese Falcon 1941 1989
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