“Among the movies we not only love but treasure, The Maltese Falcon stands as a great divide.”
Bogey is Sam Spade, a cynical private eye, whose cool is broken(ish) when beautiful femme fatale Ruth Wonderly (Mary Astor) walks into his office and asks for his help in tracking down her missing sister. But as Spade becomes entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue (courtesy of Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and the always brilliantly pathetic Elisha Cook Jr) he soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese Falcon. Adapted from Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel of the same name, John Huston's directorial debut is a classic film noir of suspicion, doubt and dames - and Peak Bogey.