The Maltese Falcon #23 on the AFI Top 100 List ** 1/2

Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The girl who asked him to follow the man turns out not to be who she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the `Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. I definitely liked Bogart more in this picture than I did in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and I also liked Peter Lorre who played Joel Cairo, and Sydney Greenstreet who played Kasper Gutman. I found the person who shot Bogart's partner to be predictable.