For many years John Huston’s movie, The Maltese Falcon, has been named as one of the top twenty-five movies of all time by the AFI, American Film Institute. ...
The main character in The Maltese Falcon is a detective named Sam Spade. ... The woman that hired them then tells Spade that she needs his help in tracking down the Maltese Falcon, an elusive artifact that everyone wants. While working on the case he comes in contact with two more men that want the Falcon. They both want Spade to get the Falcon for them, and both of them offer a good amount of money each. Now Spade has a choice, who to get the Falcon for; the woman (who he is starting to fall in love with), Joel Cairo who offers him $5000, or he can give the Falcon to Gutman who offered him $25,0000-500,000. ...
In The Maltese Falcon there are three women characters; the secretary, Effie, Archer’s widow, and the woman that hired Spade and Archer, who in the film has many alias’s but then we finally learn that her real name is Brigid O’Shaughnessy. ...
John Huston, the director of The Maltese Falcon was trying to say that life in the 1940’s was a hard one. ...
The Maltese Falcon reminds me of the film MacGuffin by Alfred Hitchcock. Because like the “macguffin”, the Maltese Falcon didn’t have to be shown in the movie. ...
One of the reasons that The Maltese Falcon is one of the greatest films of all time is because how it was shot.
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