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A priceless artifact, stolen by pirates, turns up in San Francisco leading three unscrupulous men, a beautiful woman and an investigator on a chase to retrieve it.

A film noir twisting and turning and presenting Bogart at the top of his game, The Maltese Falcon is a classic Hollywood movie packed with subterfuge and manipulation.

The Maltese Falcon marked the auspicious directing debut of John Huston, who also wrote the screenplay and was blessed with an exceptional cast of superb players.

John Huston's masterful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" flies high when compared to its predecessors

Life and works of American writer Dashiell Hammett, founder of hard-boiled detective stories, best known for crime novel, The Maltese Falcon, also a blockbuster film.

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The American Film Institute has designated the Top Ten Mystery Films of All Time. The Alfred Hitchcock mystery thriller, Vertigo, takes the top spot.

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Continuing with their classic films collections, this newest wave of DVD sets include Sci-Fi, Murder Mysteries, and Horror films - four films in each category.

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Many of these 1940s Oscar movies are strong examples of powerful film making and are highly regarded today. Even the weaker ones are still enjoyable and worth a look.

No other twenty year period in Academy Awards history probably had such a wide range of ages among its Oscar nominees. Here they are from Tatum O'Neal to Groucho Marx.

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In detective movies, the person solving the crime is usually more important to the story than the crime itself.

A faithful adaptation of the source material can lead to problems of fidelity and redundancy. These problems can be solved by interpretation rather than transposition.

A key Warner Bros. picture of the period, Angels features real-life best friends James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as lifelong pals who take different forks in life's road.

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Short quotes from famous Christmas Day birthday celebrants Isaac Newton, Anwar Al Sadat, Bogart Humphrey, and Robert LeRoy Ripley.

These seven gay writers met only 12 times between 1980 and 1981, yet their work has left a lasting mark on the history of homosexual literature and gay culture.

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