WHAT'S IT ABOUT?

San Francisco PI Sam Spade [played by the legendary Humphrey Bogart] is drawn into a tangle for a jewel-encrusted statue of a falcon.  The greed, violence, lust and pioneering camerawork make this a must-see film.

COOL FACTOR:

If you like crime thrillers, hard-bitten private dicks and femmes fatales, you will love this film. One of the benchmarks of the film noir genre.

SCENE:

"We need a fall guy!" Twisty, turny film noir brilliance.

TRIVIA!

•    Censors scrutinized the production very closely. The many "by gad"'s uttered in the movie were inserted by the censors to replace "by God". Director John Huston was also warned not to show excessive drinking, though he ignored this as it was central to Bogart’s character.

•    Gutman and Wilmer, two of the characters in the movie, are referred to as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". These are the names used for the two atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima respectively.