This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form. Unfolding a most intriguing and entertaining murder mystery, picture displays outstanding ...

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade with a red and black background. Image via Warner Bros. John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ranks as one of the greatest film noirs of time, noted for its exceptional story ...

The Noir Book of the Month Club officially launches with Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" and a guest blog by D.A. Kolodenko. Give the blog and the book a read before joining KPBS Cinema Junkie ...

In this noir classic, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss ...