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 Wonderly, 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 Wonderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his ... (Full plot summary below)
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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 Wonderly, 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 Wonderly 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.
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| The New YorkerPauline KaelThe strange, dreamlike tension of the film escalates with each new confrontation, each new tailing, each new beating, with Gutman and Cairo shot from a queasy low angle, and the nightmare culminates in a gripping series of closeups on each strained face. |
| EmpireSimon BraudThe Maltese Falcon is an unassailable triumph of script, casting, direction and editing. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksThe Maltese Falcon (1941) is one of the most popular classic detective mysteries ever made, and one of the first in the dark film noir genre. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisHuston's curdled view of humanity (especially women) is already evident in his debut film, a punchy and redoubtable exercise in mystery. |
| Time OutDerek AdamsFilmed almost entirely in interiors, it presents a claustrophobic world animated by betrayal, perversion and pain. |
| VarietyVariety StaffThis is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form. |
| Common Sense MediaNell MinowExcellent but too mature for the littlest kids. |
| Patrick NabarroPJ NabarroThere's two competing frames of reference throughout: the narrative itself, then a meta-narrative with the characters continually voicing the etiquette of their genre scenario |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is essentially a series of conversations punctuated by brief, violent interludes. It's all style. It isn't violence or chases, but the way the actors look, move, speak and embody their characters. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonArguably the best detective movie ever made in Hollywood. |
