Summary: Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. That's
for Sam Spade and Miles Archer. The two men are partners, but Sam
doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss
Wanderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's
changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems
Miss Wanderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who
uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his
enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes
from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder.
More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these
dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird: the Maltese
Falcon.
The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Gladys George. Out of all the Humphrey Bogart movies I've seen, this was probably the worst. It started out good, then got really boring, but it picked up, and had a good ending.
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