Plot: After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial debut, got it right, simply by ... Read More
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Sunday, March 20 marked the last day of the South by Southwest Film Festival, and you can look to Cinematical for boatloads of reviews, interviews and coverage in the days to come. Simultaneously, the rest of the film world looks to their local repertory...
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The greatest American detective film ever, and one of the first of the true films noir.

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