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In San Francisco, wealthy Ruth Wonderly (Bebe Daniels) hires amorous gumshoe Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) and his partner, Miles Archer, to trail her sister's kidnapper, Floyd Thursby. Wonderly's story is revealed as a ruse when both Archer and Thursby are later found murdered. Soon, Spade discovers that Wonderly and three other criminal oddballs -- including rotund Casper Gutman (Dudley Digges) -- are in search of an elusive jewel-covered statuette known as "the Maltese Falcon."
Original Release
06/13/1931
US Release
06/13/1931
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Bebe Daniels | Ruth Wonderly |
| Ricardo Cortez | Sam Spade |
| Dudley Digges | Casper Gutman |
| Una Merkel | Effie Perine / Effie Perrine |
| Robert Elliott | Detective Lt. Dundy / Police Lt. Dundy |
| Thelma Todd | Iva Archer |
| Otto Matieson | Dr. Joel Cairo |
| Walter Long | Miles Archer |
| Dwight Frye | Wilmer Cook |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | Det. Sgt. Tom Polhouse / Det. Sgt. Tom Polhaus |
Directors
Writers
Dashiell Hammett, Maude Fulton, Brown Holmes, Lucien Hubbard
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Bebe Daniels | Ruth Wonderly |
| Ricardo Cortez | Sam Spade |
| Dudley Digges | Casper Gutman |
| Una Merkel | Effie Perine / Effie Perrine |
| Robert Elliott | Detective Lt. Dundy / Police Lt. Dundy |
| Thelma Todd | Iva Archer |
| Otto Matieson | Dr. Joel Cairo |
| Walter Long | Miles Archer |
| Dwight Frye | Wilmer Cook |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | Det. Sgt. Tom Polhouse / Det. Sgt. Tom Polhaus |
| Agostino Borgato | Capt. John Jacobi |
| Tiny Jones | Jailbird Seeking Cigarette |
| Cliff Saum | Baggage Clerk |
| Morgan Wallace | District Attorney |
| Lucille Ward | Sarah - Prison Matron |
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